Blue Bird Vision Transit Bus, model year 2026. Filed by Blue Bird Body Company and reported to NHTSA on 22 January 2026. 1 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Blue Bird Bus Company (Blue Bird) is recalling one 2026 Vision transit bus. The windows may have illegible DOT markings. As such these windows fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 205, "Glazing Materials."
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V033 cover?
- Blue Bird Vision Transit Bus, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Blue Bird Bus Company (Blue Bird) is recalling one 2026 Vision transit bus. The windows may have illegible DOT markings. As such these windows fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 205, "Glazing Materials."
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A missing DOT code mark may result in the window being replaced with an incorrect type of glass, increasing the risk of a injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. The dealer will inspect and repair the glass etching, free of charge. An owner notification letter was mailed March 19, 2026. Owner may contact Blue Bird's customer service at 1-478-822-2242.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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 missing DOT code mark may result in the window being replaced with an incorrect type of glass, increasing the risk of a injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V033 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Blue Bird Body Company |
| System at fault | Visibility:Glass, Side/Rear |
| Reported to NHTSA | 22 January 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | BLUE BIRD VISION TRANSIT BUS |
What the notice says today
The defect
Blue Bird Bus Company (Blue Bird) is recalling one 2026 Vision transit bus. The windows may have illegible DOT markings. As such these windows fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 205, "Glazing Materials."
The consequence
A missing DOT code mark may result in the window being replaced with an incorrect type of glass, increasing the risk of a injury.
The remedy
The dealer will inspect and repair the glass etching, free of charge. An owner notification letter was mailed March 19, 2026. Owner may contact Blue Bird's customer service at 1-478-822-2242.
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 6adec39028f2f22dbdc74d931826d6f3…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 463 notices in the record whose component field names visibility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 34 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V033, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v033/
The copy quoted above hashes to 6adec39028f2f22dbdc74d931826d6f3…. 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 Blue Bird notices we hold
- 26V556: 2025-2027 Vision school buses equipped with Ricon K-Series wheelchair platform lifts
- 26V520: 2023-2027 Vision Transit Buses
- 26V519: 2021-2024 and 2026-2027 Vision School Bus (Electric), and 2023-2027 Vision School Buses
- 26V467: 2022-2027 Vision transit buses
- 26V466: 2022-2027 Vision school buses
- 26V319: 2027 Vision school buses
- 26V246: 2026-2027 All American school buses
- 26V245: 2026 All American transit buses
All 159 Blue 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 26V033 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9282b398 - Consequence
74dd5554 - 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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