Ford Odyssey, Turtle Top Terra Ford Transit, model year 2026. Filed by Turtle Top and reported to NHTSA on 20 May 2026. 6 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Turtle Top is recalling certain 2026 Terra Transit and Odyssey transit buses. The retractors may not lock, preventing the wheelchair from being properly secured.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V318 cover?
- Ford Odyssey, Turtle Top Terra Ford Transit, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Turtle Top is recalling certain 2026 Terra Transit and Odyssey transit buses. The retractors may not lock, preventing the wheelchair from being properly secured.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An unsecured wheelchair can move during transit, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the retractors as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed June 29, 2026. Owners may contact Turtle Top customer service at 1-800-296-2105.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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: “An unsecured wheelchair can move during transit, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V318 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Turtle Top |
| System at fault | Equipment Adaptive/Mobility:Wheelchair Restraints/Securement:Critical Fasteners |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 May 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | FORD ODYSSEY, TURTLE TOP TERRA FORD TRANSIT |
What the notice says today
The defect
Turtle Top is recalling certain 2026 Terra Transit and Odyssey transit buses. The retractors may not lock, preventing the wheelchair from being properly secured.
The consequence
An unsecured wheelchair can move during transit, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the retractors as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed June 29, 2026. Owners may contact Turtle Top customer service at 1-800-296-2105.
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 47075e2ae0ca7212942c3568ea07c256…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 289 notices in the record whose component field names equipment adaptive/mobility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 36 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 26V318, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v318/
The copy quoted above hashes to 47075e2ae0ca7212942c3568ea07c256…. 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 Turtle Top notices we hold
- 26V462: 2026 Terra Ford Transit buses
- 24V356: 2024 Van Terra, Terra Transit, Odyssey, and Odyssey XL
- 20V141: 2019 Turtle Top Odyssey
- 18V603: 2013-2018 Turtle Top Odyssey, VanTerra, and Terra Transit transit buses, equipped with Ricon S-Series and K-Series Titanium Wheelchair Lifts
- 16V281: model year 2016 Odyssey transit buses manufactured December 17, 2015, to March 29, 2016
- 16V009: model year 2006-2014 Odyssey, 2008-2009 and 2011 Odyssey LT, 2007-2008 and 2010-2012 Odyssey XL, 2008 and 2012 Terra Transport and 2007-2008 and 2013 Van Terra
- 15V396: model year 2006-2014 Odyssey, 2011 Odyssey LT, 2006-2012 Terra Transport, 2014 Terra Transport, and 2014 Van Terra
- 13V263: model year 2007 through 2012 Odyssey, Terra Transport, and Van Terra
All 18 Turtle Top 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 26V318 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
01876d68 - Consequence
dd76bab7 - 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 26V318 · how the whole register is watched
120 days after this was filed with the regulator, the register still carries no date for the letter to owners. The sixty days 49 CFR 577.7 allows have passed. A blank there is a gap in the record, which is not the same as a gap in the post: where this maker stands on the sixty days.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Turtle Top Odyssey, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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