Freightliner Business Class M2, model years 2022 to 2024. Filed by Fontaine Modification Co. and reported to NHTSA on 6 August 2025. 176 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Fontaine Modification Company (Fontaine Modification) is recalling certain 2022-2024 Freightliner Business Class M2 vehicles. Welds may crack and fail, allowing the Intermediate steering shaft assembly to detach from the steering column.
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 25V504 cover?
- Freightliner Business Class M2, model years 2022-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Fontaine Modification Company (Fontaine Modification) is recalling certain 2022-2024 Freightliner Business Class M2 vehicles. Welds may crack and fail, allowing the Intermediate steering shaft assembly to detach from the steering column.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A steering shaft that detaches can result in a loss of steering, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Fontaine Modification will replace the intermediate steering shaft, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 3, 2025. Owners may contact Fontaine Modification customer service at 1-800-366-8246.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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 steering shaft that detaches can result in a loss of steering, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V504 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | FONTAINE MODIFICATION CO. |
| System at fault | Steering |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 August 2025 |
| Model years | 2022-2024 |
| Vehicles named | FREIGHTLINER BUSINESS CLASS M2 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Fontaine Modification Company (Fontaine Modification) is recalling certain 2022-2024 Freightliner Business Class M2 vehicles. Welds may crack and fail, allowing the Intermediate steering shaft assembly to detach from the steering column.
The consequence
A steering shaft that detaches can result in a loss of steering, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Fontaine Modification will replace the intermediate steering shaft, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 3, 2025. Owners may contact Fontaine Modification customer service at 1-800-366-8246.
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 eb6b57a7a3e73661a8725e0dd4507fbe…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 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
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CarsMultiverse, recall 25V504, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v504/
The copy quoted above hashes to eb6b57a7a3e73661a8725e0dd4507fbe…. 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.
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Other Freightliner notices we hold
- 26V066: 2024-2025 Freightliner Business Class M2
- 15V679: model year 2014-2016 Freightliner M2
- 10V444: MODEL YEAR 2009-2010 FREIGHTLINER M2
All 4 Freightliner 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 25V504 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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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.
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