Altec Aa55, Altec Am55, Altec An46, Altec An55, model years 2022 to 2023. Filed by Altec Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 23 December 2025. 18 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Altec Industries, Inc.(Altec) is recalling certain 2022-2023 AA55, 2023 AM55, AN46, and AN55 vehicles. A check valve that retains oil in the boom hoses may not have been installed, allowing a vacuum to form and reducing the upper boom’s insulation.
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.
Altec's own number for this recall: CSN 3272. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V909 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 25V909 cover?
- Altec Aa55, Altec Am55, Altec An46, Altec An55, model years 2022-2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Altec Industries, Inc.(Altec) is recalling certain 2022-2023 AA55, 2023 AM55, AN46, and AN55 vehicles. A check valve that retains oil in the boom hoses may not have been installed, allowing a vacuum to form and reducing the upper boom’s insulation.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Reduced insulation can conduct electricity to the operator or others touching the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury and death.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Altec will provide instructions to owners on how to inspect their vehicles for the check valve. Altec service will install the check valve as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 10, 2026. Owners may contact Altec customer service at 1-877-462-5832.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Altec calls this recall CSN 3272, 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: “Reduced insulation can conduct electricity to the operator or others touching the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury and death.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V909 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Altec Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Mechanical:Boom/Crane/Ladder:Motor/Hydraulic Pump |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2022-2023 |
| Vehicles named | ALTEC AA55, ALTEC AM55, ALTEC AN46, ALTEC AN55 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Altec Industries, Inc.(Altec) is recalling certain 2022-2023 AA55, 2023 AM55, AN46, and AN55 vehicles. A check valve that retains oil in the boom hoses may not have been installed, allowing a vacuum to form and reducing the upper boom’s insulation.
The consequence
Reduced insulation can conduct electricity to the operator or others touching the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury and death.
The remedy
Altec will provide instructions to owners on how to inspect their vehicles for the check valve. Altec service will install the check valve as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 10, 2026. Owners may contact Altec customer service at 1-877-462-5832. Altec's number for this recall is CSN 3272.
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 0443fb3378ca17de2794f206a02ccda3…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 25V909, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v909/
The copy quoted above hashes to 0443fb3378ca17de2794f206a02ccda3…. 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.
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- 26V243: 2025-2026 AM Series Aerial Device
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- 26V150: 2023-2026 Service Body, Aerial Device, Pressure Digger, Spray Truck, and Digger Derrick
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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 25V909 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
376a5caf - Consequence
0729cb6c - Remedy
67973270
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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