Blue Bird Vision School Bus, Blue Bird Vision Transit Bus, model years 2025 to 2027. Filed by Blue Bird Body Company and reported to NHTSA on 10 December 2025. 52 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Blue Bird Bus Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain 2025-2027 Vision school buses. The wheelchair lift may have a missing support brace, causing the wheelchair lift to fail. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 404, "Platform Lift …
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 25V852 cover?
- Blue Bird Vision School Bus, Blue Bird Vision Transit Bus, model years 2025-2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Blue Bird Bus Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain 2025-2027 Vision school buses. The wheelchair lift may have a missing support brace, causing the wheelchair lift to fail.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A wheelchair lift that fails increases the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Blue Bird will install the missing support brace, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 4, 2026. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 1-478-822-2242.
- 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 wheelchair lift that fails increases the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V852 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Blue Bird Body Company |
| System at fault | Equipment Adaptive/Mobility:Wheelchair Lift/Ramp |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2027 |
| Vehicles named | BLUE BIRD VISION SCHOOL BUS, BLUE BIRD VISION TRANSIT BUS |
What the notice says today
The defect
Blue Bird Bus Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain 2025-2027 Vision school buses. The wheelchair lift may have a missing support brace, causing the wheelchair lift to fail. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 404, "Platform Lift Installations."
The consequence
A wheelchair lift that fails increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Blue Bird will install the missing support brace, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 4, 2026. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 1-478-822-2242.
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 351dbc68059eaa77c9b854c245505c45…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 289 notices in the record whose component field names equipment adaptive/mobility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 36 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Blue Bird Vision School Bus recalls: 51 US campaigns
- Blue Bird Vision Transit Bus recalls: 29 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 25V852, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v852/
The copy quoted above hashes to 351dbc68059eaa77c9b854c245505c45…. 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 Blue Bird notices we hold
- 26V556: 2025-2027 Vision school buses equipped with Ricon K-Series wheelchair platform lifts
- 26V520: 2023-2027 Vision Transit Buses
- 26V519: 2021-2024 and 2026-2027 Vision School Bus (Electric), and 2023-2027 Vision School Buses
- 26V467: 2022-2027 Vision transit buses
- 26V466: 2022-2027 Vision school buses
- 26V319: 2027 Vision school buses
- 26V246: 2026-2027 All American school buses
- 26V245: 2026 All American transit buses
All 159 Blue 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 25V852 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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7ab1f2f1 - 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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