Vermeer Bc1800xl, model years 2002 to 2026. Filed by Vermeer Manufacturing Company and reported to NHTSA on 9 June 2026. 515 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Vermeer Manufacturing Company (Vermeer) is recalling certain 2002-2026 BC1800XL brush chipper trailers. The hydraulic jack may extend unexpectedly.
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.
Vermeer's own number for this recall: IK4837. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V379 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 26V379 cover?
- Vermeer Bc1800Xl, model years 2002-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Vermeer Manufacturing Company (Vermeer) is recalling certain 2002-2026 BC1800XL brush chipper trailers. The hydraulic jack may extend unexpectedly.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An extended jack may contact the ground while driving, causing a loss of vehicle control and increasing the risk of injury or a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will repair the hydraulic jack, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 7, 2026. Owners may contact Vermeer customer service at 1-800-829-0051 ext. 7060. Vermeer's number for this recall is IK4837.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Vermeer calls this recall IK4837, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
- Has this notice changed since it was announced?
- Yes. The remedy was reworded on 22 Aug 2026. Both versions are on this page, with the date each was read.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
Owners of this vehicle were written to on 7 August 2026. The remedy was reworded on 22 August 2026, 15 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Read both versions.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “An extended jack may contact the ground while driving, causing a loss of vehicle control and increasing the risk of injury or a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V379 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Vermeer Manufacturing Company |
| System at fault | Equipment:Mechanical:Integrated Jack/Leveler/Stabilizer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 9 June 2026 |
| Model years | 2002-2026 |
| Vehicles named | VERMEER BC1800XL |
What the notice says today
The defect
Vermeer Manufacturing Company (Vermeer) is recalling certain 2002-2026 BC1800XL brush chipper trailers. The hydraulic jack may extend unexpectedly.
The consequence
An extended jack may contact the ground while driving, causing a loss of vehicle control and increasing the risk of injury or a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will repair the hydraulic jack, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 7, 2026. Owners may contact Vermeer customer service at 1-800-829-0051 ext. 7060. Vermeer's number for this recall is IK4837.
What it said before
This notice has been edited since it was first published. NHTSA shows only the current version. Both are below, read straight from the agency at the times shown, with the words that moved marked.
The remedy was rewritten
1 words added, 4 removed. The notice grew from 241 to 227 characters.
Dealers will repair the hydraulic jack, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 7, 2026. Owners may contact Vermeer customer service at 1-800-829-0051 ext. 7060. Vermeer's number for this recall is IK4837.
Dealers will repair the hydraulic jack, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 7, 2026. Owners may contact Vermeer customer service at 1-800-829-0051 ext. 7060. Vermeer's number for this recall is IK4837.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
This is one of 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 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 2026277, recorded 9 June 2026 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on IK4837, 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 26V379, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v379/
The copy quoted above hashes to 6b281cc487c578008cf4cbf3c13622fc…. 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 Vermeer notices we hold
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- 24V784: 2024-2025 VXT600G2 vacuum
- 24V505: 2024 BC1200XL brush chippers
- 24V411: 2023 LPSDT vacuum excavator trailers
- 24V357: 2015-2022 BC900XL brush chipper trailers
- 24V098: 2016-2024 BC1800XL brush chipper trailers
- 23V206: 2021-2023 BC700XL brush chipper trailers
All 31 Vermeer 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 26V379 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
758e8707 - Consequence
4573b2fa - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026 and have caught it being edited 1 time since.
The wording we hold for 26V379 · how the whole register is watched
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