Nova Bus Lfs, Nova Bus Lfs Artic, model years 2013 to 2020. Filed by Nova Bus (US) Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 10 February 2026. 478 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Nova Bus (US) Inc. (Nova Bus) is recalling certain 2013-2019 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses equipped with Double Transversal seats. The passenger seat mounting rails may crack, causing the seat to detach and fall to the floor.
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.
Nova Bus's own number for this recall: CR5858. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V077 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 26V077 cover?
- Nova Bus LFS, Nova Bus LFS Artic, model years 2013-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Nova Bus (US) Inc. (Nova Bus) is recalling certain 2013-2019 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses equipped with Double Transversal seats. The passenger seat mounting rails may crack, causing the seat to detach and fall to the floor.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A seat that falls unexpectedly increases the risk of injury to passengers in or near to the seat.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Nova Bus will replace the attachment brackets, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters explaining the safety risk were mailed by April 10, 2026. Owners will receive another notice once remedy becomes available. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 1-450-472-6410.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Nova Bus calls this recall CR5858, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
- 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.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A seat that falls unexpectedly increases the risk of injury to passengers in or near to the seat.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V077 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Nova Bus (US) Inc. |
| System at fault | Seats |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 February 2026 |
| Model years | 2013-2020 |
| Vehicles named | NOVA BUS LFS, NOVA BUS LFS ARTIC |
What the notice says today
The defect
Nova Bus (US) Inc. (Nova Bus) is recalling certain 2013-2019 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses equipped with Double Transversal seats. The passenger seat mounting rails may crack, causing the seat to detach and fall to the floor.
The consequence
A seat that falls unexpectedly increases the risk of injury to passengers in or near to the seat.
The remedy
Nova Bus will replace the attachment brackets, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters explaining the safety risk were mailed by April 10, 2026. Owners will receive another notice once remedy becomes available. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 1-450-472-6410. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning December 4, 2026.
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
2 words added, 2 removed. The notice grew from 409 to 407 characters.
Nova Bus will replace the attachment brackets, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters explaining the safety risk were mailed by April 10, 2026. Owners will receive another notice once remedy becomes available. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 1-450-472-6410. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning September 25, 2026.
Nova Bus will replace the attachment brackets, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters explaining the safety risk were mailed by April 10, 2026. Owners will receive another notice once remedy becomes available. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 1-450-472-6410. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning December 4, 2026.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
This is one of 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 days.
Last checked . 1 change recorded in the wording since we started reading it daily, the latest on 9 October 2026.
Changed since our daily reading began
9 October 2026: the remedy was rewritten. Before: Nova Bus will replace the attachment brackets, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters explaining the safety risk were mailed by April 10, 2026. Owners will receive another notice once remedy becomes available. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 1-450-472-6410. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning December 4, 2026.
After: Nova Bus will replace the attachment brackets, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 2, 2026. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 1-450-472-6410. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning December 4, 2026.
Side by side
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V077, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v077/
The copy quoted above hashes to 4689b4257f50bfeaedfb4f0dd6c1174a…. 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 Nova Bus notices we hold
- 26V355: 1997-2002, 2005-2024 LFS, 2009-2014, and 2016 - 2024 LFS Artic transit buses
- 26V300: 2019-2020 LFS Artic and 2019-2023 LFS transit buses
- 26V275: 2022-2023 LFS transit buses
- 26V206: 2025 LFS and 2024 LFS Artic transit buses
- 26V182: 2016-2018, 2020, 2022-2023 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses
- 26E019: Ricon hidden frame windows sold through Prevost Parts and Prevost Service Center
- 25V822: 2021 and 2024-2025 LFS transit buses
- 25V773: 2024-2025 LFS transit buses
All 94 Nova Bus 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 26V077 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
49261427 - Consequence
946a2cde - Remedy
94823b27
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.
The wording we hold for 26V077 · how the whole register is watched
219 days after this was filed with the regulator, the register still carries no date for the letter to owners. The sixty days 49 CFR 577.7 allows have passed. A blank there is a gap in the record, which is not the same as a gap in the post: where this maker stands on the sixty days.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Nova Bus LFS Artic, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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