Spartan Fire Legend Series, Spartan Fire Star Series, Spartan Fire Ust Body, model years 2007 to 2026. Filed by Spartan Fire, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 23 December 2025. 311 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Spartan Fire, LLC (Spartan) is recalling certain 2021-2023, 2025 Spartan Fire Legend, 2007, 2015-2026 Star Series, and 2019-2020 UST Body emergency vehicles. A handle may detach from the ladder lock assembly, allowing the ground ladders to fall off.
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.
Spartan's own number for this recall: 26001. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V910 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 25V910 cover?
- Spartan Fire Legend Series, Spartan Fire Star Series, Spartan Fire Ust Body, model years 2007-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Spartan Fire, LLC (Spartan) is recalling certain 2021-2023, 2025 Spartan Fire Legend, 2007, 2015-2026 Star Series, and 2019-2020 UST Body emergency vehicles. A handle may detach from the ladder lock assembly, allowing the ground ladders to fall off.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A detached handle or ladder can become a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the rod and handle as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 2, 2026. Owners may contact Spartan customer service at 1-517-543-6400. Spartan's number for this recall is 26001.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Spartan calls this recall 26001, 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 detached handle or ladder can become a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V910 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Spartan Fire, LLC |
| System at fault | Equipment:Mechanical:Boom/Crane/Ladder:Critical Fasteners |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2007-2026 |
| Vehicles named | SPARTAN FIRE LEGEND SERIES, SPARTAN FIRE STAR SERIES, SPARTAN FIRE UST BODY |
What the notice says today
The defect
Spartan Fire, LLC (Spartan) is recalling certain 2021-2023, 2025 Spartan Fire Legend, 2007, 2015-2026 Star Series, and 2019-2020 UST Body emergency vehicles. A handle may detach from the ladder lock assembly, allowing the ground ladders to fall off.
The consequence
A detached handle or ladder can become a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the rod and handle as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 2, 2026. Owners may contact Spartan customer service at 1-517-543-6400. Spartan's number for this recall is 26001.
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 0d4e4b59c130460515b7cd5eddcaef2d…, 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
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V910, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v910/
The copy quoted above hashes to 0d4e4b59c130460515b7cd5eddcaef2d…. 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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- 20V065: 2019 Utilimaster Sprinter
- 19V674: 2004-2020 Emergency Response Gladiator and Spartan
- 19V523: 2014-2020 Emergency Response Gladiator and MetroStar
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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 25V910 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
826be941 - Consequence
6c87f343 - 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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