Harbinger Motors Stripped Chassis, model year 2025. Filed by Harbinger Motors Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 24 June 2026. 129 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Harbinger Motors Inc (Harbinger) is recalling certain 2025 Stripped Chassis vehicles. The steering gear mounting bolts may come loose or break.
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.
Harbinger Motors's own number for this recall: REC-04-00003. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V405 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 26V405 cover?
- Harbinger Motors Stripped Chassis, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Harbinger Motors Inc (Harbinger) is recalling certain 2025 Stripped Chassis vehicles. The steering gear mounting bolts may come loose or break.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Broken or loose steering gear bolts can cause a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the steering gear assembly bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 21, 2026. Harbinger's number for this recall is REC-04-00003.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Harbinger Motors calls this recall REC-04-00003, 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 28 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 21 August 2026. The remedy was reworded on 28 August 2026, 7 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Read both versions.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Broken or loose steering gear bolts can cause a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V405 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Harbinger Motors Inc. |
| System at fault | Steering |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 June 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | HARBINGER MOTORS STRIPPED CHASSIS |
What the notice says today
The defect
Harbinger Motors Inc (Harbinger) is recalling certain 2025 Stripped Chassis vehicles. The steering gear mounting bolts may come loose or break.
The consequence
Broken or loose steering gear bolts can cause a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the steering gear assembly bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 21, 2026. Harbinger's number for this recall is REC-04-00003.
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
2 words added, 5 removed. The notice grew from 192 to 178 characters.
Dealers will replace the steering gear assembly bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 10, 2026. Harbinger's number for this recall is REC-04-00003.
Dealers will replace the steering gear assembly bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 21, 2026. Harbinger's number for this recall is REC-04-00003.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
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 . 3 changes recorded in the wording since we started reading it daily, the latest on 24 September 2026.
Changed since our daily reading began
24 September 2026: the vehicle count was rewritten. Before: 129
After: 293
Side by side
24 September 2026: the remedy was rewritten. Before: Dealers will replace the steering gear assembly bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 21, 2026. Harbinger's number for this recall is REC-04-00003.
After: Dealers will inspect and replace the steering gear assembly bolts with chemical threadlock patches, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 21, 2026. Harbinger's number for this recall is REC-04-00003.
Side by side
24 September 2026: the defect summary was rewritten. Before: Harbinger Motors Inc (Harbinger) is recalling certain 2025 Stripped Chassis vehicles. The steering gear mounting bolts may come loose or break.
After: Harbinger Motors Inc (Harbinger) is recalling certain 2026 Step Van and 2025 Stripped Chassis vehicles. The steering gear mounting bolts may come loose or break.
Side by side
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V405, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v405/
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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.
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 26V405 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
29d8961d - Consequence
d5607385 - 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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