Horton Critical Care Transport, Horton Type I, Horton Type Iii, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Halcore Group, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 14 August 2026. 545 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Halcore Group, Inc. (Halcore) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Horton Type I, Type III, and Critical Care ambulances. The touchscreen display may stop responding to touch commands or fail to power on, preventing the activation of exterior emergency lights, as well as fire fighting and other emergency equipment.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V533 cover?
- Horton Critical Care Transport, Horton Type I, Horton Type Iii, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Halcore Group, Inc. (Halcore) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Horton Type I, Type III, and Critical Care ambulances.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of exterior lights can reduce the visibility of the vehicle to other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash. Inoperative equipment can delay emergency response, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Weldon Division of Akron will update the firmware and repair the power line, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 5, 2026. Owners may contact Weldon customer service at 1-800-228-1161 or Halcore customer service at 1-800-447-0343.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
- 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.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A loss of exterior lights can reduce the visibility of the vehicle to other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash. Inoperative equipment can delay emergency response, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V533 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Halcore Group, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Emergency:Siren/Lighting/Strobes:Controls |
| Reported to NHTSA | 14 August 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | HORTON CRITICAL CARE TRANSPORT, HORTON TYPE I, HORTON TYPE III |
What the notice says today
The defect
Halcore Group, Inc. (Halcore) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Horton Type I, Type III, and Critical Care ambulances. The touchscreen display may stop responding to touch commands or fail to power on, preventing the activation of exterior emergency lights, as well as fire fighting and other emergency equipment.
The consequence
A loss of exterior lights can reduce the visibility of the vehicle to other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash. Inoperative equipment can delay emergency response, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Weldon Division of Akron will update the firmware and repair the power line, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 5, 2026. Owners may contact Weldon customer service at 1-800-228-1161 or Halcore customer service at 1-800-447-0343.
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
5 words added, 8 removed. The notice grew from 283 to 270 characters.
Halcore will work with Akron Brass to update the firmware and repair the power line, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 5, 2026. Owners may contact Akron Brass customer service at 1-800-228-1161 or Halcore customer service at 1-800-447-0343.
Weldon Division of Akron will update the firmware and repair the power line, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 5, 2026. Owners may contact Weldon customer service at 1-800-228-1161 or Halcore customer service at 1-800-447-0343.
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 models named here, across their whole recall history
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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V533, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v533/
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Other Horton notices we hold
- 24V120: 2023-2024 Horton emergency
- 20V745: 2020 Horton Emergency
- 20V291: 2018-2020 Horton Emergency
- 20V131: 2018 AEV Traumahawk Type 3 ambulances
- 20V128: 2016-2019 Horton Emergency
- 19V742: 2018-2019 Horton Type I & Type III ambulances
- 19V608: 2018-2020 Horton Type I and Type III Emergency
- 19V281: 2016-2019 Horton Type I and Type III ambulances equipped with ASA Electronics back-up camera displays
All 22 Horton 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 26V533 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
14d13656 - Consequence
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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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