Braun Ambulances Chief Xl Type I, Braun Ambulances Chief Xl Type Iii, Braun Ambulances Express Plus Type I, Braun Ambulances Express Type Iii, Braun Ambulances Liberty Type I, Braun Ambulances Select Chief Xl I, model years 2021 to 2026. Filed by Braun Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 31 December 2025. 162 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Braun Industries, Inc. (Braun Ambulances) is recalling certain 2021-2026 Chief XL I, Chief XL III, 2021-2025 Express Plus I, Liberty I, 2025 Express III, Select Chief XL I, and Super Chief I emergency vehicles equipped with a Pran system. The battery isolator may fail, causing a loss of electrical systems such as …
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.
Braun Ambulances's own number for this recall: 2025-02. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V914 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 25V914 cover?
- Braun Ambulances Chief XL Type I, Braun Ambulances Chief XL Type Iii, Braun Ambulances Express Plus Type I, Braun Ambulances Express Type Iii, Braun Ambulances Liberty Type I, Braun Ambulances Select Chief XL I, Braun Ambulances Super Chief Type I, model years 2021-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Braun Industries, Inc. (Braun Ambulances) is recalling certain 2021-2026 Chief XL I, Chief XL III, 2021-2025 Express Plus I, Liberty I, 2025 Express III, Select Chief XL I, and Super Chief I emergency vehicles equipped with a Pran system.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of exterior lights can reduce the visibility of the vehicle to other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash. A loss of patient support systems can delay care, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Braun Service or an authorized dealer will update the software, modify wiring, and replace the battery isolator, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 12, 2026. Owners may contact Braun Ambulances' customer service at 1-877-344-9990.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Braun Ambulances calls this recall 2025-02, 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 exterior lights can reduce the visibility of the vehicle to other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash. A loss of patient support systems can delay care, increasing the risk of injury.”
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| Campaign | 25V914 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Braun Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 31 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2021-2026 |
| Vehicles named | BRAUN AMBULANCES CHIEF XL TYPE I, BRAUN AMBULANCES CHIEF XL TYPE III, BRAUN AMBULANCES EXPRESS PLUS TYPE I, BRAUN AMBULANCES EXPRESS TYPE III, BRAUN AMBULANCES LIBERTY TYPE I, BRAUN AMBULANCES SELECT CHIEF XL I, BRAUN AMBULANCES SUPER CHIEF TYPE I |
What the notice says today
The defect
Braun Industries, Inc. (Braun Ambulances) is recalling certain 2021-2026 Chief XL I, Chief XL III, 2021-2025 Express Plus I, Liberty I, 2025 Express III, Select Chief XL I, and Super Chief I emergency vehicles equipped with a Pran system. The battery isolator may fail, causing a loss of electrical systems such as interior, exterior lighting, and patient support systems.
The consequence
A loss of exterior lights can reduce the visibility of the vehicle to other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash. A loss of patient support systems can delay care, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Braun Service or an authorized dealer will update the software, modify wiring, and replace the battery isolator, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 12, 2026. Owners may contact Braun Ambulances' customer service at 1-877-344-9990. Braun Ambulances number for this recall is 2025-02.
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 e3434c9334db8c60eeb2c8d4e4398f87…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Braun Ambulances Chief XL Type I recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Braun Ambulances Chief XL Type Iii recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Braun Ambulances Express Plus Type I recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Braun Ambulances Express Type Iii recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Braun Ambulances Liberty Type I recalls: 8 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V914, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v914/
The copy quoted above hashes to e3434c9334db8c60eeb2c8d4e4398f87…. 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 Braun Ambulances notices we hold
- 26V098: 2025-2026 Demers FXP174 ambulances
- 25V677: 2023-2026 Chief XL Type I, Express Plus Type I, Liberty Type I, RMT US Type I, and Select Chief XL Type I ambulances
- 25V327: 2016-2018 Demers MXP150E, MX164E, 2016-2024 Transit TSE, 2024 Transit TXE, and 2018- 2020 Demers Ambulances
- 24V307: 2023-2024 Chief XL I, Chief XL III, Express Plus I, Express III, and Liberty I
- 22V370: 2021 Chief XL Type I, 2020 TLC, and Express Plus ambulances
- 21V740: 2020 Demers Ambulances MXP153 Ford F-Series Gas, MXP153 Dodge Ram, and 2020-2021 MXP153 Ford F-Series Diesel emergency
- 21V183: 2019 and 2021 MX170E Ford E-Series, and 2019-2020 MXP170E Dodge Ram 5500 Demers Ambulance
All 8 Braun Ambulances 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 25V914 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
47b806a6 - Consequence
235e7c11 - 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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