Blue Arc Ba4l-800, model years 2024 to 2025. Filed by Shyft Group and reported to NHTSA on 17 February 2026. 149 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Blue Arc BA4L-800 vehicles. The mounting fasteners may loosen or detach, causing the steering gearbox to bind.
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.
Blue Arc's own number for this recall: 26-01. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V088 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 26V088 cover?
- Blue Arc Ba4L-800, model years 2024-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Blue Arc BA4L-800 vehicles. The mounting fasteners may loosen or detach, causing the steering gearbox to bind.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Binding in the gearbox can cause a loss of steering, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Shyft will replace the steering gearbox mounting bolts and washers, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 23, 2026. Owners may contact Shyft customer service at 1-800-237-7806. Shyft's number for this recall is 26-01.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Blue Arc calls this recall 26-01, 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: “Binding in the gearbox can cause a loss of steering, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V088 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Shyft Group |
| System at fault | Steering:Gear Box:Mounting Bracket |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 February 2026 |
| Model years | 2024-2025 |
| Vehicles named | BLUE ARC BA4L-800 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Blue Arc BA4L-800 vehicles. The mounting fasteners may loosen or detach, causing the steering gearbox to bind.
The consequence
Binding in the gearbox can cause a loss of steering, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Shyft will replace the steering gearbox mounting bolts and washers, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 23, 2026. Owners may contact Shyft customer service at 1-800-237-7806. Shyft's number for this recall is 26-01.
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 8ed4e9732b766916601d096e7d1b03f0…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- European Union: Safety Gate alert SR/02419/26, published 11 September 2026, raised by Germany (the Commission’s own page) (7 months after the American filing)
Matched on 2601, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
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 26V088, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v088/
The copy quoted above hashes to 8ed4e9732b766916601d096e7d1b03f0…. 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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- 25V335: 2022-2024 Utilimaster Velocity
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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 26V088 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8e413b51 - Consequence
adfafc0d - 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.
The wording we hold for 26V088 · how the whole register is watched
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