Vermeer R600t, model year 2025. Filed by Vermeer Manufacturing Company and reported to NHTSA on 28 August 2025. 2 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Vermeer Manufacturing Company (Vermeer) is recalling certain 2025 R600T trailers. The rear impact guards have been manufactured with a design that may have inadequate strength. As such, these trailers fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 223, "Rear Impact Guards."
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.
Vermeer's own number for this recall: IK4732. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V557 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 25V557 cover?
- Vermeer R600T, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Vermeer Manufacturing Company (Vermeer) is recalling certain 2025 R600T trailers. The rear impact guards have been manufactured with a design that may have inadequate strength.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Inadequate strength of the rear impact guards can increase the risk of injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will repair the rear impact guards, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 21, 2025. Owners may contact Vermeer customer service at 1-800-829-0051 ext. 7060. Vermeer's number for this recall is IK4732.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Vermeer calls this recall IK4732, 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: “Inadequate strength of the rear impact guards can increase the risk of injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V557 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Vermeer Manufacturing Company |
| System at fault | Structure:Body:Bumpers |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 August 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | VERMEER R600T |
What the notice says today
The defect
Vermeer Manufacturing Company (Vermeer) is recalling certain 2025 R600T trailers. The rear impact guards have been manufactured with a design that may have inadequate strength. As such, these trailers fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 223, "Rear Impact Guards."
The consequence
Inadequate strength of the rear impact guards can increase the risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will repair the rear impact guards, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 21, 2025. Owners may contact Vermeer customer service at 1-800-829-0051 ext. 7060. Vermeer's number for this recall is IK4732.
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 20ed4d6f258ccc9ece99f2fff5fc73f6…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 25V557, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v557/
The copy quoted above hashes to 20ed4d6f258ccc9ece99f2fff5fc73f6…. 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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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 25V557 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
73708305 - Consequence
c6cfe5b4 - 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 25V557 · how the whole register is watched
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