Autocar Legend, Autocar Xpeditor, model years 2024 to 2026. Filed by Autocar, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 9 October 2025. 2,848 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2024-2026 ACX (Xpeditor) and DC (Legend) vehicles. The tie rod clamp may have been improperly secured.
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.
Autocar's own number for this recall: ACX-2505 DC-2507. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V679 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 25V679 cover?
- Autocar Legend, Autocar Xpeditor, model years 2024-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2024-2026 ACX (Xpeditor) and DC (Legend) vehicles. The tie rod clamp may have been improperly secured.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The tie rod clamp can separate from the vehicle, resulting in a loss of steering control and increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Autocar will inspect and secure or repair the tie rod clamp as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 5, 2025. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-888-218-3611. Autocar's numbers for this recall are ACX-2505 and DC-2507.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Autocar calls this recall ACX-2505 DC-2507, 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: “The tie rod clamp can separate from the vehicle, resulting in a loss of steering control and increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V679 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Autocar, LLC |
| System at fault | Steering:Linkages:Tie Rod Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 9 October 2025 |
| Model years | 2024-2026 |
| Vehicles named | AUTOCAR LEGEND, AUTOCAR XPEDITOR |
What the notice says today
The defect
Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2024-2026 ACX (Xpeditor) and DC (Legend) vehicles. The tie rod clamp may have been improperly secured.
The consequence
The tie rod clamp can separate from the vehicle, resulting in a loss of steering control and increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Autocar will inspect and secure or repair the tie rod clamp as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 5, 2025. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-888-218-3611. Autocar's numbers for this recall are ACX-2505 and DC-2507.
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 37a635908bc84bfb448f3026c9b2b350…, 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
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V679, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v679/
The copy quoted above hashes to 37a635908bc84bfb448f3026c9b2b350…. 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 Autocar notices we hold
- 26V501: 2023-2027 ACTT terminal tractors
- 26V215: 2025-2026 ACX (Xpeditor)
- 26V055: 2023-2026 ACX (Xpeditor)
- 25V875: one 2024 E-ACTT terminal tractor
- 25V746: 2025-2026 ACX (Xpeditor)
- 25V660: 2023-2026 ACX (Xpeditor) and DC (Legend)
- 25V451: 2012-2025 ACTT (Xspotter)
- 25V449: 2015-2022 ACTT (Xspotter) and ACX (Xpeditor)
All 118 Autocar 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 25V679 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
01028641 - Consequence
e93a7ad0 - 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 25V679 · how the whole register is watched
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