Micro Bird G5e Transit Bus, model years 2018 to 2026. Filed by Corp. Micro Bird, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 19 December 2025. 10 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Corp. Micro Bird, Inc. (Micro Bird) is recalling certain 2018-2019, 2024-2026 G5E transit buses. The power steering pump may fail to start when the ignition is turned on or may shutdown unexpectedly.
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: 25-119-PUC. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V902 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 25V902 cover?
- Micro Bird G5E Transit Bus, model years 2018-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Corp. Micro Bird, Inc. (Micro Bird) is recalling certain 2018-2019, 2024-2026 G5E transit buses. The power steering pump may fail to start when the ignition is turned on or may shutdown unexpectedly.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of power steering assist can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and update the software as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 18, 2026. Owners can contact Micro Bird Customer Service at 819-477-2012. Micro Bird's number for this recall is 25-119-PUC.
- 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 25-119-PUC, 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 power steering assist can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V902 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Corp. Micro Bird, Inc. |
| System at fault | Steering:Hydraulic Power Assist:Pump |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2018-2026 |
| Vehicles named | MICRO BIRD G5E TRANSIT BUS |
What the notice says today
The defect
Corp. Micro Bird, Inc. (Micro Bird) is recalling certain 2018-2019, 2024-2026 G5E transit buses. The power steering pump may fail to start when the ignition is turned on or may shutdown unexpectedly.
The consequence
A loss of power steering assist can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and update the software as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 18, 2026. Owners can contact Micro Bird Customer Service at 819-477-2012. Micro Bird's number for this recall is 25-119-PUC.
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 4dd7b424572a917eb4f53d66d0a838d6…, 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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V902, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v902/
The copy quoted above hashes to 4dd7b424572a917eb4f53d66d0a838d6…. 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
- 25V901: 2019, 2021-2026 G5E school buses
- 25V843: 2026 G5 transit buses
- 25V840: 2022-2025 MB II, T-Series, and 2021-2026 G5 school 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 25V902 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
59f2b2b3 - Consequence
0134f608 - 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 25V902 · how the whole register is watched
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