Ic Bus Cesb, Ic Bus Evsb, model years 2025 to 2027. Filed by International Motors, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 16 July 2026. 22,730 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2025-2027 IC Bus EVSB and CESB school buses. The driver's window panel and entrance door vertical joints may have been attached without sufficient epoxy coverage. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety …
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: 26511. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V460 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 26V460 cover?
- Ic Bus Cesb, Ic Bus Evsb, model years 2025-2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2025-2027 IC Bus EVSB and CESB school buses. The driver's window panel and entrance door vertical joints may have been attached without sufficient epoxy coverage.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The body panels may separate during a crash, reducing structural integrity and increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install rivets along the driver's side window seam and entrance door seam, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 8, 2026. Owners may contact International's customer service at 1-800-448-7825. International's number for this recall is 26511.
- 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 26511, 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 12 Sep 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 8 September 2026. The remedy was reworded on 12 September 2026, 4 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Read both versions.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “The body panels may separate during a crash, reducing structural integrity and increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V460 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | International Motors, LLC |
| System at fault | Structure:Body |
| Reported to NHTSA | 16 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2027 |
| Vehicles named | IC BUS CESB, IC BUS EVSB |
What the notice says today
The defect
International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2025-2027 IC Bus EVSB and CESB school buses. The driver's window panel and entrance door vertical joints may have been attached without sufficient epoxy coverage. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 221, "School Bus Body Joint Strength."
The consequence
The body panels may separate during a crash, reducing structural integrity and increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will install rivets along the driver's side window seam and entrance door seam, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 8, 2026. Owners may contact International's customer service at 1-800-448-7825. International's number for this recall is 26511.
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 296 to 281 characters.
Dealers will install rivets along the driver's side window seam and entrance door seam, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 14, 2026. Owners may contact International's customer service at 1-800-448-7825. International's number for this recall is 26511.
Dealers will install rivets along the driver's side window seam and entrance door seam, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 8, 2026. Owners may contact International's customer service at 1-800-448-7825. International's number for this recall is 26511.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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 2026349, recorded 16 July 2026 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 26511, 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 26V460, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v460/
The copy quoted above hashes to 8f7b1e54f95d919c8ad06802bafc2ed8…. 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
- 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
- 26V294: 2026-2027 HV
- 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 26V460 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
09ea224f - Consequence
e6d579af - 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 26V460 · how the whole register is watched
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