Roush Nissan Frontier Pro4x R, model year 2026. Filed by Roush Performance Products, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 15 April 2026. 1,217 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Roush Performance Products, Inc. (Roush) is recalling certain 2026 Nissan Frontier Pro4X R vehicles. The cotter pins for the upper control arm ball joint and steering tie rod ends may not have been installed, and fasteners may not be properly tightened.
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.
Roush's own number for this recall: C-26001. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V242 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 26V242 cover?
- Roush Nissan Frontier Pro4X R, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Roush Performance Products, Inc. (Roush) is recalling certain 2026 Nissan Frontier Pro4X R vehicles. The cotter pins for the upper control arm ball joint and steering tie rod ends may not have been installed, and fasteners may not be properly tightened.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Loose or missing fasteners can cause a loss of vehicle steering and control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to drive their vehicle until the remedy is completed. Dealers will replace the cotter pins, and replace or tighten fasteners as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 22, 2026. Owners may contact Roush customer service at 1-800-597-6874.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Roush calls this recall C-26001, 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: “Loose or missing fasteners can cause a loss of vehicle steering and control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V242 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Roush Performance Products, Inc. |
| System at fault | Steering:Linkages:Tie Rod Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 15 April 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | ROUSH NISSAN FRONTIER PRO4X R |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The defect
Roush Performance Products, Inc. (Roush) is recalling certain 2026 Nissan Frontier Pro4X R vehicles. The cotter pins for the upper control arm ball joint and steering tie rod ends may not have been installed, and fasteners may not be properly tightened.
The consequence
Loose or missing fasteners can cause a loss of vehicle steering and control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to drive their vehicle until the remedy is completed. Dealers will replace the cotter pins, and replace or tighten fasteners as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 22, 2026. Owners may contact Roush customer service at 1-800-597-6874. Roush's number for this recall is C-26001.
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 1eda6e1c16893cd8fc577abcd327abef…, 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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V242, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v242/
The copy quoted above hashes to 1eda6e1c16893cd8fc577abcd327abef…. 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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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 26V242 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
7e97a942 - Consequence
fa200469 - 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 26V242 · how the whole register is watched
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