Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Hdx, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Hdx2, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 12 September 2025. 99 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain Thomas Built Buses 2025-2026 Saf-T-Liner HDX, Saf-T-Liner C2, 2026 Saf-T-Liner EFX, and Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley school buses. The tie rod castle nut and cotter pin may not be installed properly, which can result in a loss of vehicle steering control.
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.
Thomas Built Buses's own number for this recall: D25R2. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V604 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 25V604 cover?
- Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX2, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain Thomas Built Buses 2025-2026 Saf-T-Liner HDX, Saf-T-Liner C2, 2026 Saf-T-Liner EFX, and Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley school buses.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of vehicle steering control increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the tie rod assembly, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 10, 2025. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is D25R2.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Thomas Built Buses calls this recall D25R2, 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 loss of vehicle steering control increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V604 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Trucks North America, LLC |
| System at fault | Steering:Linkages:Tie Rod Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 September 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | THOMAS BUILT BUSES SAF-T-LINER C2, THOMAS BUILT BUSES SAF-T-LINER C2 JOULEY, THOMAS BUILT BUSES SAF-T-LINER EFX, THOMAS BUILT BUSES SAF-T-LINER HDX, THOMAS BUILT BUSES SAF-T-LINER HDX2 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain Thomas Built Buses 2025-2026 Saf-T-Liner HDX, Saf-T-Liner C2, 2026 Saf-T-Liner EFX, and Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley school buses. The tie rod castle nut and cotter pin may not be installed properly, which can result in a loss of vehicle steering control.
The consequence
A loss of vehicle steering control increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the tie rod assembly, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 10, 2025. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is D25R2.
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 e708457aee5daaf308821136fae1db97…, 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 same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2025478, recorded 11 September 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on D25R2, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2 recalls: 115 US campaigns
- Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley recalls: 15 US campaigns
- Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx recalls: 42 US campaigns
- Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX recalls: 78 US campaigns
- Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX2 recalls: 8 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V604, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v604/
The copy quoted above hashes to e708457aee5daaf308821136fae1db97…. 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.
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 25V604 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
af6ebea2 - Consequence
34a07c67 - 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.
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