Utilimaster Velocity, model years 2016 to 2021. Filed by Shyft Group and reported to NHTSA on 8 July 2026. 563 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2016, 2019, and 2021 Utilimaster Velocity vehicles. Water may enter an improperly sealed strobe light and cause a short circuit.
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.
Utilimaster's own number for this recall: 26-06. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V440 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 26V440 cover?
- Utilimaster Velocity, model years 2016-2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2016, 2019, and 2021 Utilimaster Velocity vehicles. Water may enter an improperly sealed strobe light and cause a short circuit.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An electrical short increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Owners are advised to remove the control module for the strobe light. The remedy is currently under development. Interim owner notification letters explaining the safety risk were mailed July 17, 2026. Another notice will be sent once the remedy becomes available.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Utilimaster calls this recall 26-06, 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: “An electrical short increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V440 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Shyft Group |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2016-2021 |
| Vehicles named | UTILIMASTER VELOCITY |
What the notice says today
The defect
Shyft Group (Shyft) is recalling certain 2016, 2019, and 2021 Utilimaster Velocity vehicles. Water may enter an improperly sealed strobe light and cause a short circuit.
The consequence
An electrical short increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Owners are advised to remove the control module for the strobe light. The remedy is currently under development. Interim owner notification letters explaining the safety risk were mailed July 17, 2026. Another notice will be sent once the remedy becomes available. Owners may contact Shyft customer service at 1-800-237-7806. Shyft's number for this recall is 26-06.
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 a157ad57509feafd117f0a819dbb2826…, 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.
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 26V440, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v440/
The copy quoted above hashes to a157ad57509feafd117f0a819dbb2826…. 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.
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- 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 26V440 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
3eeff404 - Consequence
a80023f6 - 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 26V440 · how the whole register is watched
71 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 Utilimaster Velocity, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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