Autocar Xspotter, model years 2023 to 2024. Filed by Autocar, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 17 April 2025. 224 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2023-2024 ACTT (Xspotter) vehicles. The alternator ground cable may be misrouted and contact the alternator positive stud, damaging the cable.
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: ACTT-2502. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V258 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 25V258 cover?
- Autocar Xspotter, model years 2023-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2023-2024 ACTT (Xspotter) vehicles. The alternator ground cable may be misrouted and contact the alternator positive stud, damaging the cable.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A damaged cable can short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and repair, or replace the cable as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 13, 2025. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-888-218-3611. Autocar's number for this recall is ACTT-2502.
- 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 ACTT-2502, 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: “A damaged cable can short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V258 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Autocar, LLC |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Wiring |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 April 2025 |
| Model years | 2023-2024 |
| Vehicles named | AUTOCAR XSPOTTER |
What the notice says today
The defect
Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2023-2024 ACTT (Xspotter) vehicles. The alternator ground cable may be misrouted and contact the alternator positive stud, damaging the cable.
The consequence
A damaged cable can short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and repair, or replace the cable as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 13, 2025. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-888-218-3611. Autocar's number for this recall is ACTT-2502.
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 8d02062c4592169efc3fd3428e0385d8…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 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 25V258, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v258/
The copy quoted above hashes to 8d02062c4592169efc3fd3428e0385d8…. 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
- 26V501: 2023-2027 ACTT terminal tractors
- 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 25V258 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9d45833f - Consequence
b2dfa402 - Remedy
7ee13513
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.
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