Micro Bird G5e School Bus, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Corp. Micro Bird, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 29 August 2025. 30 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Corp. Micro Bird, Inc. (Micro Bird) is recalling certain 2025-2026 G5e school buses. The transmission interlock may allow the vehicle to be put into gear when the rear emergency door is locked. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 217, "Bus Emergency Exits and Window …
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.
Micro Bird's own number for this recall: 25-115-EUS. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V563 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 25V563 cover?
- Micro Bird G5E School Bus, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Corp. Micro Bird, Inc. (Micro Bird) is recalling certain 2025-2026 G5e school buses. The transmission interlock may allow the vehicle to be put into gear when the rear emergency door is locked.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An emergency exit that is locked can prevent or delay occupants from exiting the vehicle during an emergency, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and repair the transmission interlock as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 27, 2025. Owners can contact Micro Bird Customer Service at 819-477-2012. Micro Bird's number for this recall is 25-115-EUS.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Micro Bird calls this recall 25-115-EUS, 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: “An emergency exit that is locked can prevent or delay occupants from exiting the vehicle during an emergency, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V563 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Corp. Micro Bird, Inc. |
| System at fault | Power Train:Automatic Transmission:Park/Neutral Start Interlock Switch |
| Reported to NHTSA | 29 August 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | MICRO BIRD G5E SCHOOL BUS |
What the notice says today
The defect
Corp. Micro Bird, Inc. (Micro Bird) is recalling certain 2025-2026 G5e school buses. The transmission interlock may allow the vehicle to be put into gear when the rear emergency door is locked. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 217, "Bus Emergency Exits and Window Retention and Release."
The consequence
An emergency exit that is locked can prevent or delay occupants from exiting the vehicle during an emergency, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and repair the transmission interlock as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 27, 2025. Owners can contact Micro Bird Customer Service at 819-477-2012. Micro Bird's number for this recall is 25-115-EUS.
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 6ea4423ecc2cb3871109aa0aa88e59cd…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. 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
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V563, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v563/
The copy quoted above hashes to 6ea4423ecc2cb3871109aa0aa88e59cd…. 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 Micro Bird notices we hold
- 26V287: 2023-2026 G5 and 2024 MB II school buses built on a GM chassis and equipped with a second air conditioning compressor kit
- 26V286: 2023-2025 G5 transit buses built on a GM chassis and equipped with a second air conditioning compressor kit
- 26V149: 2003-2026 MB II, 2006-2026 G5, and 2015-2026 T-Series school buses
- 26V148: 2026 G5 transit buses
- 26V147: 2002-2015 MB II, 2008-2026 G5, and 2015-2026 T-Series transit buses
- 25V902: 2018-2019, 2024-2026 G5E transit buses
- 25V901: 2019, 2021-2026 G5E school buses
- 25V843: 2026 G5 transit buses
All 81 Micro Bird 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 25V563 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
510a6a26 - Consequence
882c7fcc - 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 25V563 · how the whole register is watched
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