Demers Ambulances Fxp174, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Braun Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 20 February 2026. 7 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Braun Industries, Inc. (Braun Ambulances) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Demers FXP174 ambulances. The floor may have insufficient strength to secure the seats in position during a crash. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard numbers 207, "Seating …
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V098 cover?
- Demers Ambulances FXP174, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Braun Industries, Inc. (Braun Ambulances) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Demers FXP174 ambulances. The floor may have insufficient strength to secure the seats in position during a crash.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Structural failure may prevent the seat from properly restraining an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. The remedy is currently under development. All affected vehicles were repaired by June 22, 2026. Owners may contact Braun Ambulances' customer service at 1-800-363-7591. Braun Ambulances number for this recall is 2026-1.
- 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: “Structural failure may prevent the seat from properly restraining an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V098 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Braun Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Structure: Underride |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 February 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | DEMERS AMBULANCES FXP174 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Braun Industries, Inc. (Braun Ambulances) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Demers FXP174 ambulances. The floor may have insufficient strength to secure the seats in position during a crash. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard numbers 207, "Seating Systems" and 210, "Seat Belt Assembly Anchorages."
The consequence
Structural failure may prevent the seat from properly restraining an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
The remedy is currently under development. All affected vehicles were repaired by June 22, 2026. Owners may contact Braun Ambulances' customer service at 1-800-363-7591. Braun Ambulances number for this recall is 2026-1.
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 72fabcbe4642f1e9832e7b79bfee4a14…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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/01231/26, published 24 April 2026, raised by Belgium (the Commission’s own page)
Matched on 20261, 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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V098, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v098/
The copy quoted above hashes to 72fabcbe4642f1e9832e7b79bfee4a14…. 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
- 25V914: 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
- 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 26V098 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6d5c03a7 - Consequence
87844f9b - 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 26V098 · how the whole register is watched
209 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: every notice still without one.
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