Ic Bus Cesb, Ic Bus Evsb, model years 2023 to 2027. Filed by International Motors, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 19 March 2026. 2,874 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2023-2027 IC Bus CESB and 2025-2027 IC Bus EVSB school buses. The body panel joint may have been attached without sufficient epoxy coverage. As such these vehicle fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. …
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.
International's own number for this recall: 26504. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V168 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 26V168 cover?
- Ic Bus Cesb, Ic Bus Evsb, model years 2023-2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2023-2027 IC Bus CESB and 2025-2027 IC Bus EVSB school buses. The body panel joint may have been attached without sufficient epoxy coverage.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The body panels may separate during a crash, reducing structural integrity and increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and repair the interior vertical joint as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 4, 2026. Owners may contact International's customer service at 1-800-448-7825. International's number for this recall is 26504.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. International calls this recall 26504, 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: “The body panels may separate during a crash, reducing structural integrity and increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V168 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | International Motors, LLC |
| System at fault | Structure:Body |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2023-2027 |
| Vehicles named | IC BUS CESB, IC BUS EVSB |
What the notice says today
The defect
International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2023-2027 IC Bus CESB and 2025-2027 IC Bus EVSB school buses. The body panel joint may have been attached without sufficient epoxy coverage. As such these vehicle fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 221, "School Bus Body Joint Strength."
The consequence
The body panels may separate during a crash, reducing structural integrity and increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and repair the interior vertical joint as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 4, 2026. Owners may contact International's customer service at 1-800-448-7825. International's number for this recall is 26504. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning May 11, 2026.
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 d09f7e9fe47792bd0489c1a335417109…, 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.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2026130, recorded 19 March 2026 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 26504, 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 26V168, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v168/
The copy quoted above hashes to d09f7e9fe47792bd0489c1a335417109…. 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 International notices we hold
- 26V516: 2027 HV, HX, LT, MV, and RH trucks
- 26V461: 2025-2027 IC Bus CECB transit buses
- 26V460: 2025-2027 IC Bus EVSB and CESB school buses
- 26V459: 2021, 2023-2027 MV, and 2026-2027 HV
- 26V382: 2026-2027 HV
- 26V364: 2027 IC Bus CESB school buses
- 26V348: 2026-2027 IC Bus EVSB school buses
- 26V294: 2026-2027 HV
All 42 International 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 26V168 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
1c48fbe5 - Consequence
e6d579af - Remedy
16b2081b
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 26V168 · how the whole register is watched
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