Autocar Legend, model years 2023 to 2024. Filed by Autocar, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 3 April 2025. 5 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2023-2024 DC (Legend) vehicles. The air tanks have an insufficient volume of air for the brake system. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 121, "Air Brake Systems."
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Autocar's own number for this recall: DC-2504. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V209 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 25V209 cover?
- Autocar Legend, model years 2023-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2023-2024 DC (Legend) vehicles. The air tanks have an insufficient volume of air for the brake system. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 121, "Air Brake Systems."
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Insufficient air volume can reduce brake function, extending the distance required to stop and increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace or add additional air tanks as necessary, free of charge. All vehicles were repaired by May 23, 2025. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-888-218-3611. Autocar's number for this recall is DC-2504.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Autocar calls this recall DC-2504, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Insufficient air volume can reduce brake function, extending the distance required to stop and increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V209 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Autocar, LLC |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Air:Supply:Reservoir/Tank |
| Reported to NHTSA | 3 April 2025 |
| Model years | 2023-2024 |
| Vehicles named | AUTOCAR LEGEND |
What the notice says today
The defect
Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2023-2024 DC (Legend) vehicles. The air tanks have an insufficient volume of air for the brake system. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 121, "Air Brake Systems."
The consequence
Insufficient air volume can reduce brake function, extending the distance required to stop and increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace or add additional air tanks as necessary, free of charge. All vehicles were repaired by May 23, 2025. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-888-218-3611. Autocar's number for this recall is DC-2504.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 0022f06672cc1bcd6fb80b8388238e4e…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 353 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, air. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V209, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v209/
The copy quoted above hashes to 0022f06672cc1bcd6fb80b8388238e4e…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Autocar notices we hold
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- 26V215: 2025-2026 ACX (Xpeditor)
- 26V055: 2023-2026 ACX (Xpeditor)
- 25V875: one 2024 E-ACTT terminal tractor
- 25V746: 2025-2026 ACX (Xpeditor)
- 25V679: 2024-2026 ACX (Xpeditor) and DC (Legend)
- 25V660: 2023-2026 ACX (Xpeditor) and DC (Legend)
- 25V451: 2012-2025 ACTT (Xspotter)
All 118 Autocar campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 25V209 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
60dc3b66 - Consequence
16a39d96 - Remedy
82a4144b
We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 25V209 · how the whole register is watched
532 days after this was filed with the regulator, the register still carries no date for the letter to owners. The sixty days 49 CFR 577.7 allows have passed. A blank there is a gap in the record, which is not the same as a gap in the post: where this maker stands on the sixty days.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Autocar Legend, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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