Spartan Rv Chassis K1, Spartan Rv Chassis K2, Spartan Rv Chassis K3, Spartan Rv Chassis K4, model years 2024 to 2027. Filed by Shyft Group and reported to NHTSA on 8 May 2026. 836 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2025 Spartan RV Chassis K1, 2024-2026 RV Chassis K2, RV Chassis K3, and 2025-2027 RV Chassis K4 vehicles. The exterior brake lights may remain illuminated when the driver is not applying the brakes. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor …
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.
Spartan's own number for this recall: 26-05. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V292 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 26V292 cover?
- Spartan RV Chassis K1, Spartan RV Chassis K2, Spartan RV Chassis K3, Spartan RV Chassis K4, model years 2024-2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2025 Spartan RV Chassis K1, 2024-2026 RV Chassis K2, RV Chassis K3, and 2025-2027 RV Chassis K4 vehicles. The exterior brake lights may remain illuminated when the driver is not applying the brakes.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Brake lights that remain on may fail to alert other vehicles of the driver's intention, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Shyft will replace the pressure switch, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 28, 2026. Owners may contact Shyft customer service at 1-800-237-7806. Shyft's number for this recall is 26-05.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Spartan calls this recall 26-05, 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: “Brake lights that remain on may fail to alert other vehicles of the driver's intention, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V292 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Shyft Group |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Brake Lights |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 May 2026 |
| Model years | 2024-2027 |
| Vehicles named | SPARTAN RV CHASSIS K1, SPARTAN RV CHASSIS K2, SPARTAN RV CHASSIS K3, SPARTAN RV CHASSIS K4 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2025 Spartan RV Chassis K1, 2024-2026 RV Chassis K2, RV Chassis K3, and 2025-2027 RV Chassis K4 vehicles. The exterior brake lights may remain illuminated when the driver is not applying the brakes. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
The consequence
Brake lights that remain on may fail to alert other vehicles of the driver's intention, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Shyft will replace the pressure switch, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 28, 2026. Owners may contact Shyft customer service at 1-800-237-7806. Shyft's number for this recall is 26-05.
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 531dd1a7446666d947751640b35b8e98…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V292, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v292/
The copy quoted above hashes to 531dd1a7446666d947751640b35b8e98…. 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 Spartan notices we hold
- 26V440: 2016, 2019, and 2021 Utilimaster Velocity
- 26V284: 2025 Utilimaster Velocity
- 26V265: 2022 Utilimaster Aeromaster
- 26V088: 2024-2025 Blue Arc BA4L-800
- 25V452: 2015-2025 Utilimaster Truck Body
- 25V447: 2024-2025 Blue ARC BA4L-800
- 25V405: 2024-2025 Utilimaster Aeromaster
- 25V335: 2022-2024 Utilimaster Velocity
All 48 Spartan 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 26V292 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ddfebe95 - Consequence
24091a4d - 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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