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Kme Severe Service Recalls & Complaints by Model Year

NHTSA lists 5 safety recalls and 0 owner complaints across 7 model years of the Kme Severe Service (2006–2023).

5
safety recalls, all years
0
owner complaints, all years
2006
year with most recalls

Pick your Kme Severe Service model year

Model yearRecallsComplaints
2023 Kme Severe Service10
2022 Kme Severe Service10
2021 Kme Severe Service10
2020 Kme Severe Service10
2016 Kme Severe Service10
2007 Kme Severe Service10
2006 Kme Severe Service20

All Kme Severe Service recalls (5)

Every NHTSA safety campaign that lists a Kme Severe Service, most recent first, with the model years each one covers.

  1. Electrical system: wiring

    NHTSA 23V818000 Reported 22 vehicles potentially affected Kovatch Mobile Equipment Corp.

    Kovatch Mobile Equipment Corp. (KME) is recalling certain 2020 Severe Service, Predator, and Spartan MetroStar trucks. In the event of a short circuit or wiring failure, the firmware in the vehicle multiplex system may fail to shut off the output pin, resulting in overloaded electrical circuits.

    Remedy: Dealers will work with the equipment manufacturer to update the firmware, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 24, 2024. Owners may contact KME customer service at 1-800-235-3928.

    Model years: 2020

  2. Parking brake

    NHTSA 23V798000 Reported 44 vehicles potentially affected Kovatch Mobile Equipment Corp.

    Kovatch Mobile Equipment Corp. (KME) is recalling certain 2021-2023 Predator, Panther, and Severe Service fire trucks. A defect in the inversion valve may delay park brake engagement, which could allow the vehicle to move unintentionally. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety…

    Remedy: Dealers will inspect and replace the inversion valves as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 24, 2024. Owners may contact KME customer service at 1-800-235-3928.

    Model years: 2021, 2022, 2023

  3. Axle assembly (power train)

    NHTSA 15V723000 Reported 3 vehicles potentially affected Kovatch Mobile Equipment Corp.

    Kovatch Mobile Equipment Corp. (KME) is recalling certain model year 2016 Predator and Severe Service vehicles manufactured May 8, 2015, to October 1, 2015, and equipped with certain drive axles manufactured by Marmon-Herrington. The affected axles are equipped with hex nuts on the flange yoke that may not have been properly tightened.

    Remedy: KME will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the hex nuts, tightening them as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on November 20, 2015. Owners may contact KME customer service at 1-800-235-3926.

    Model years: 2016

  4. Check valve (service brakes)

    NHTSA 08V263000 Reported 122 vehicles potentially affected KOVATCH MOBILE EQUIPMENT

    Kme is recalling 122 my 2006-2007 predator and severe service pumper, aerial and tda fire trucks. A check valve was omitted from the secondary supply port of the bendix sr-7 spring brake modulating valve.

    Remedy: Dealers will add a check valve to the secondary supply port of the sr-7 spring brake modulating valve and will also repair the sr-7 valve by applying a check valve repair kit as required for the bendix safety recall…

    Model years: 2006, 2007

  5. Diesel (engine and engine cooling)

    NHTSA 06V407000 Reported 14 vehicles potentially affected KOVATCH MOBILE EQUIPMENT

    On certain trucks built with cummins isl cm850 diesel engines. The connecting rods which transfer energy from the piston to the crankshaft are defective and can result in seizure of the piston pin. A piston pin seizure can result in a mission-disabling engine failure.

    Remedy: Cummins will replace the connecting rods free of charge (please see 06e037). Customers may contact cummins at 1-800-diesels or kme at 1-800-235-3928.

    Model years: 2006

Other Kme models

Source: NHTSA recall and complaint databases and EPA fuel economy data, October 2026. Complaint counts are owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects. Recall counts are safety campaigns that list this model year; whether a particular car was already repaired depends on its VIN. How this data is compiled.