Nova Bus Lfs, Nova Bus Lfs Artic, model years 2016 to 2023. Filed by Nova Bus (US) Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 24 March 2026. 416 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Nova Bus (US) Inc. (Nova Bus) is recalling certain 2016-2018, 2020, 2022-2023 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses. The driver's seat belt tension-reliving device may fail to disengage without manual intervention. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety …
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: CR5873. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V182 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 26V182 cover?
- Nova Bus LFS, Nova Bus LFS Artic, model years 2016-2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Nova Bus (US) Inc. (Nova Bus) is recalling certain 2016-2018, 2020, 2022-2023 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses. The driver's seat belt tension-reliving device may fail to disengage without manual intervention.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Failure of the tension-reliving device may prevent the seat belt from properly restraining the driver, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Nova Bus will remove the seat belt tension-reliving device, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 22, 2026. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 1-450-472-6410. Nova Bus' number for this recall is CR5873.
- 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 CR5873, 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: “Failure of the tension-reliving device may prevent the seat belt from properly restraining the driver, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V182 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Nova Bus (US) Inc. |
| System at fault | Seat Belts:Front |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2016-2023 |
| 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 2016-2018, 2020, 2022-2023 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses. The driver's seat belt tension-reliving device may fail to disengage without manual intervention. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 208, "Occupant Crash Protection."
The consequence
Failure of the tension-reliving device may prevent the seat belt from properly restraining the driver, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
Nova Bus will remove the seat belt tension-reliving device, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 22, 2026. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 1-450-472-6410. Nova Bus' number for this recall is CR5873. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning May 23, 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 740dc31e6fe6c226cbe042a74b9585a4…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 451 notices in the record whose component field names seat belts. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 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 2026137, recorded 24 March 2026 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on CR5873, 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 26V182, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v182/
The copy quoted above hashes to 740dc31e6fe6c226cbe042a74b9585a4…. 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
- 26V077: 2013-2019 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses equipped with Double Transversal seats
- 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 26V182 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
baf93e27 - Consequence
86cb7669 - 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 26V182 · how the whole register is watched
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