Ricon K-Series Wheelchair Lift, Ricon S-Series Wheelchair Lift, model year 9999. Filed by Ricon Corporation and reported to NHTSA on 23 June 2026. 1,220 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ricon Corporation (Ricon) is recalling certain S-Series and K-Series wheelchair platform lifts. The electrical contactor may fail, preventing the controls from stopping the lift.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26E038 cover?
- Ricon K-Series Wheelchair Lift, Ricon S-Series Wheelchair Lift.
- What is wrong with them?
- Ricon Corporation (Ricon) is recalling certain S-Series and K-Series wheelchair platform lifts. The electrical contactor may fail, preventing the controls from stopping the lift.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A wheelchair lift that continues to move while occupied increases the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will correct the wiring by installing two diodes, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 29, 2026. Owners may contact Ricon customer service at 1-800-322-2884.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
- Has this notice changed since it was announced?
- Yes. The remedy was reworded on 2 Sep 2026. Both versions are on this page, with the date each was read.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
Owners of this vehicle were written to on 29 June 2026. The remedy was reworded on 2 September 2026, 65 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Read both versions.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A wheelchair lift that continues to move while occupied increases the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26E038 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ricon Corporation |
| System at fault | Equipment Adaptive/Mobility:Wheelchair Lift/Ramp:Controls/Control Wiring |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 June 2026 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | RICON K-SERIES WHEELCHAIR LIFT, RICON S-SERIES WHEELCHAIR LIFT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A wheelchair lift that continues to move while occupied increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will correct the wiring by install two diodes, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 29, 2026. Owners may contact Ricon customer service at 1-800-322-2884.
What it said before
This notice has been edited since it was first published. NHTSA shows only the current version. Both are below, read straight from the agency at the times shown, with the words that moved marked.
The remedy was rewritten
1 words added, 1 removed. The notice grew from 185 to 188 characters.
Dealers will correct the wiring by install two diodes, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 29, 2026. Owners may contact Ricon customer service at 1-800-322-2884.
Dealers will correct the wiring by installing two diodes, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 29, 2026. Owners may contact Ricon customer service at 1-800-322-2884.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
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 . The remedy was last reworded on , and both versions are held.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26E038, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26e038/
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 Ricon notices we hold
- 26E017: R1200 series 6-Way and 4-Way Power Transfer Seat Base (PTSB) motorized seat bases
- 23E091: Threshold Warning System Kits (TWS) with part number RI32885, designed for use with Ricon Baylift and Mirage Series wheelchair lifts
- 21E068: Baylift Wheelchair Lift, part number RISSBF3XXX-XX
- 18E044: S-Series and K-Series Titanium Wheelchair Lifts, models K200, K201, K550, K551, S200, S2201, S550 and S551
- 16E020: model S2005, S2010, S5005, S5010, S5505, and S5510 wheelchair lifts manufactured August 26, 2014, to July 1, 2015
- 15E068: model S2005, S2010, S5005, S5010, S5505, and S5510 wheelchair lifts manufactured January 1, 2006, to August 25, 2014
- 14E041: model S2005, S2010, S5005, S5010, S5505, and S5510 wheelchair lifts manufactured after January 1, 2006
- 14E010: S series and K series wheelchair lifts manufactured January 1, 2013, through January 4, 2014, and equipped with an optional armored pendant cable
All 10 Ricon 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 26E038 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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05059df4 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026 and have caught it being edited 1 time since.
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