International Hv, model years 2026 to 2027. Filed by International Motors, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 11 May 2026. 16 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2026-2027 HV vehicles. The service brake may take longer than expected to release. As such, these vehicles may fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 121, "Air Brake Systems."
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: 26506. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V294 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 26V294 cover?
- International HV, model years 2026-2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2026-2027 HV vehicles. The service brake may take longer than expected to release. As such, these vehicles may fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 121, "Air Brake Systems."
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A delayed brake release can increase the risk of crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will remove the 5/8” air line and replace it with a 3/4” air line, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 22, 2026. Owners may contact International's customer service at 1-800-448-7825. International's number for this recall is 26506.
- 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 26506, 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: “A delayed brake release can increase the risk of crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V294 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | International Motors, LLC |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Air:Supply:Hoses, Lines/Piping, And Fittings |
| Reported to NHTSA | 11 May 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2027 |
| Vehicles named | INTERNATIONAL HV |
What the notice says today
The defect
International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2026-2027 HV vehicles. The service brake may take longer than expected to release. As such, these vehicles may fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 121, "Air Brake Systems."
The consequence
A delayed brake release can increase the risk of crash.
The remedy
Dealers will remove the 5/8” air line and replace it with a 3/4” air line, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 22, 2026. Owners may contact International's customer service at 1-800-448-7825. International's number for this recall is 26506. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning June 29, 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 3f5d735858502081ce3d55974c4d51b9…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 353 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, air. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
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 26V294, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v294/
The copy quoted above hashes to 3f5d735858502081ce3d55974c4d51b9…. 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
- 26V226: 2022-2027 IC Bus EVSB school buses
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 26V294 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c8252048 - Consequence
84c15a16 - 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 26V294 · how the whole register is watched
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