Utilimaster Aeromaster, model year 2025. Filed by Shyft Group and reported to NHTSA on 7 May 2025. 6 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2025 Utilimaster Aeromaster vehicles. The rear seat belts may not have been installed. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 208, "Occupant Crash Protection."
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.
Utilimaster's own number for this recall: 25-10. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V296 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 25V296 cover?
- Utilimaster Aeromaster, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2025 Utilimaster Aeromaster vehicles. The rear seat belts may not have been installed. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 208, "Occupant Crash Protection."
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A passenger riding without a seat belt has an increased risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to allow passengers to sit in the rear seats until the remedy has been completed. Dealers will install the rear seat belt, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 29, 2025. Owners may contact Shyft customer service at 1-800-237-7806.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Utilimaster calls this recall 25-10, 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 passenger riding without a seat belt has an increased risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V296 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Shyft Group |
| System at fault | Seat Belts |
| Reported to NHTSA | 7 May 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | UTILIMASTER AEROMASTER |
What the notice says today
The defect
Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2025 Utilimaster Aeromaster vehicles. The rear seat belts may not have been installed. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 208, "Occupant Crash Protection."
The consequence
A passenger riding without a seat belt has an increased risk of injury.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to allow passengers to sit in the rear seats until the remedy has been completed. Dealers will install the rear seat belt, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 29, 2025. Owners may contact Shyft customer service at 1-800-237-7806. Shyft Group's number for this recall is 25-10.
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 a828ba391b9a9947de14bec000836e9d…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 451 notices in the record whose component field names seat belts. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 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 25V296, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v296/
The copy quoted above hashes to a828ba391b9a9947de14bec000836e9d…. 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.
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- 26V292: 2025 Spartan RV Chassis K1, 2024-2026 RV Chassis K2, RV Chassis K3, and 2025-2027 RV Chassis K4
- 26V284: 2025 Utilimaster Velocity
- 26V265: 2022 Utilimaster Aeromaster
- 26V088: 2024-2025 Blue Arc BA4L-800
- 25V452: 2015-2025 Utilimaster Truck Body
- 25V447: 2024-2025 Blue ARC BA4L-800
- 25V405: 2024-2025 Utilimaster Aeromaster
All 48 Spartan 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 25V296 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
01fc5f25 - Consequence
de58e8c1 - 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 25V296 · how the whole register is watched
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