Hino Ne7d, Hino Nh7g, Hino Nh7k, Hino Nj7d, Hino Nj7e, Hino Nv7d, model year 2026. Filed by Hino Motors Sales U.S.A., Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 23 March 2026. 661 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Hino Motors Sales U.S.A., Inc. (Hino) is recalling certain 2026 NV7G, NV7D, NJ7E, NJ7D, NH7K, NE7D, and NH7G vehicles. The owner's manual may include incorrect maintenance instructions about how to retighten U-bolts.
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.
Hino's own number for this recall: M0490. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V175 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 26V175 cover?
- Hino Ne7D, Hino Nh7G, Hino Nh7K, Hino Nj7D, Hino Nj7E, Hino Nv7D, Hino Nv7G, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Hino Motors Sales U.S.A., Inc. (Hino) is recalling certain 2026 NV7G, NV7D, NJ7E, NJ7D, NH7K, NE7D, and NH7G vehicles. The owner's manual may include incorrect maintenance instructions about how to retighten U-bolts.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Referencing incorrect information may lead to unintentionally overtightening the U-bolts. The bolts can break, shifting the axle and leaf springs and increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the owner's manual, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 9, 2026. Owners may contact Hino customer service at 1-248-699-9390. Hino's number for this recall is M0490.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Hino calls this recall M0490, 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: “Referencing incorrect information may lead to unintentionally overtightening the U-bolts. The bolts can break, shifting the axle and leaf springs and increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V175 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Hino Motors Sales U.S.A., Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Other:Owners/Service/Other Manual |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | HINO NE7D, HINO NH7G, HINO NH7K, HINO NJ7D, HINO NJ7E, HINO NV7D, HINO NV7G |
What the notice says today
The defect
Hino Motors Sales U.S.A., Inc. (Hino) is recalling certain 2026 NV7G, NV7D, NJ7E, NJ7D, NH7K, NE7D, and NH7G vehicles. The owner's manual may include incorrect maintenance instructions about how to retighten U-bolts.
The consequence
Referencing incorrect information may lead to unintentionally overtightening the U-bolts. The bolts can break, shifting the axle and leaf springs and increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the owner's manual, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 9, 2026. Owners may contact Hino customer service at 1-248-699-9390. Hino's number for this recall is M0490.
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 33284598379ae8364ee7a44e5ae27118…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V175, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v175/
The copy quoted above hashes to 33284598379ae8364ee7a44e5ae27118…. 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 Hino notices we hold
- 25V057: 2022-2025 NH7A, NJ7A, NJ7B, NJ7C, NV7A, NV7B, and NV7C trucks
- 24V075: 2022-2024 Hino NE7A, NE7B, NH7A, NH9A, NH9B, NH9C, NJ7A, NJ7B, NJ7C, NV7A, NV7B, NV7C, NM9A, NM9B, TH9K, and TM9K
- 23V756: 2022-2023 Hino NE7A, NE7B, NJ7A, NJ7B, NV7A, and NV7B
- 23V560: 2020-2024 NE7A, NE7B, NE8A, NH9A, NJ7A, NJ7B, NJ8A, NJ8J, NV7A, NV7B, and NV8A
- 23V541: 2022-2023 NE7A, NJ7A, NJ7B and NV7A
- 23V457: 2023 NE7A, NJ7A, and NV7A
- 23V456: 2022-2023 NE7A, NE7B, NJ7A, NJ7B, NV7A, and NV7B
- 22V898: 2022-2023 NE7A, NJ7A, NJ7B, and NV7A
All 36 Hino 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 26V175 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
cba24eae - Consequence
d947643d - 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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