Frontrunner Frontrunner, model year 2025. Filed by Frontrunner Bus Group, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 24 July 2026. 24 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Frontrunner Bus Group, Inc. (Frontrunner) is recalling certain 2025 Frontrunner 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.
Frontrunner's own number for this recall: FR-26-01. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V482 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 26V482 cover?
- Frontrunner Frontrunner, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Frontrunner Bus Group, Inc. (Frontrunner) is recalling certain 2025 Frontrunner 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. Frontrunner will work with Q'Straint to inspect and replace the retractors, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 3, 2026. Owners may contact Frontrunner's customer service at 1-800-886-9247.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Frontrunner calls this recall FR-26-01, 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 unsecured wheelchair can move during transit, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V482 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | FRONTRUNNER BUS GROUP, INC. |
| System at fault | Equipment Adaptive/Mobility:Wheelchair Restraints/Securement:Critical Fasteners |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | FRONTRUNNER FRONTRUNNER |
What the notice says today
The defect
Frontrunner Bus Group, Inc. (Frontrunner) is recalling certain 2025 Frontrunner 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
Frontrunner will work with Q'Straint to inspect and replace the retractors, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 3, 2026. Owners may contact Frontrunner's customer service at 1-800-886-9247.
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 eede4b69a12cc16e90c3e84d262bd3f7…, 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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V482, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v482/
The copy quoted above hashes to eede4b69a12cc16e90c3e84d262bd3f7…. 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.
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 26V482 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
bf4fba6b - 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.
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