Prevost X3-45 Vip Entertainer, model year 2025. Filed by Prevost Car (US) Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 5 May 2025. 1 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Prevost Car (US) Inc. (Prevost) is recalling one 2025 X3-45 VIP Entertainer vehicle. The front lower control arm fasteners may have been improperly tightened, which can result in control arm separation.
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.
Prevost's own number for this recall: SR25-13. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V290 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 25V290 cover?
- Prevost X3-45 Vip Entertainer, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Prevost Car (US) Inc. (Prevost) is recalling one 2025 X3-45 VIP Entertainer vehicle. The front lower control arm fasteners may have been improperly tightened, which can result in control arm separation.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A detached control arm can cause a loss of vehicle steering and control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. The owner is advised not to drive their vehicle until it has been repaired. Prevost will inspect and tighten the fasteners as necessary, free of charge. An owner notification letter was mailed June 12, 2025. Owner may contact Prevost's customer service at 1-866-870-2046.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Prevost calls this recall SR25-13, 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 detached control arm can cause a loss of vehicle steering and control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V290 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Prevost Car (US) Inc. |
| System at fault | Suspension:Front:Control Arm:Lower Arm |
| Reported to NHTSA | 5 May 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | PREVOST X3-45 VIP ENTERTAINER |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The defect
Prevost Car (US) Inc. (Prevost) is recalling one 2025 X3-45 VIP Entertainer vehicle. The front lower control arm fasteners may have been improperly tightened, which can result in control arm separation.
The consequence
A detached control arm can cause a loss of vehicle steering and control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
The owner is advised not to drive their vehicle until it has been repaired. Prevost will inspect and tighten the fasteners as necessary, free of charge. An owner notification letter was mailed June 12, 2025. Owner may contact Prevost's customer service at 1-866-870-2046. Prevost's number for this recall is SR25-13.
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 c7da40a1050f8824a44c191748404e7b…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 732 notices in the record whose component field names suspension. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 33 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 25V290, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v290/
The copy quoted above hashes to c7da40a1050f8824a44c191748404e7b…. 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 Prevost notices we hold
- 26V095: 2026 H3-45 and H3-45 VIP
- 26V093: 2025-2026 X3-45 commuter buses
- 26E008: exterior driver side mirrors with part number 990648
- 25V738: 2025 X3-45 Commuter buses
- 25V461: 2018-2019 X3-45 Commuter
- 25V460: 2025 X3-45 and 2025-2026 H3-45 coach buses
- 25V243: 2025 Prevost H3-45 and X3-45 motorcoaches
- 24V213: 2010 H3-45 VIP, 2024 H3-45 and X3-45
All 87 Prevost 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 25V290 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e6a7b756 - Consequence
d88c58b8 - Remedy
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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 25V290 · how the whole register is watched
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