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Spartan Fire Truck Recalls & Complaints by Model Year

NHTSA lists 1 safety recall and 2 owner complaints across 7 model years of the Spartan Fire Truck (1993–1999). The most-complained-about year is 1996.

1
safety recalls, all years
2
owner complaints, all years
1993
year with most recalls
1996
year with most complaints

Pick your Spartan Fire Truck model year

Model yearRecallsComplaints
1999 Spartan Fire Truck10
1998 Spartan Fire Truck10
1997 Spartan Fire Truck10
1996 Spartan Fire Truck12
1995 Spartan Fire Truck10
1994 Spartan Fire Truck10
1993 Spartan Fire Truck10

What Spartan Fire Truck owners complain about

Across all model years, owners have filed 2 complaints with NHTSA. The 1996 model year has the most, with 2.

All Spartan Fire Truck recalls (1)

Every NHTSA safety campaign that lists a Spartan Fire Truck, most recent first, with the model years each one covers.

  1. Leaf spring assembly (suspension)

    NHTSA 01V271000 Reported 49 vehicles potentially affected SPARTAN MOTORS, INC.

    Vehicle description: fire trucks equipped with a drive axle suspension containing a spring beam with a thickness of 1.75". The spring beam in the suspension can fail causing the collapse of the drive axle suspension and allowing abrupt contact of the tires with the bodywork of the rear of the fire truck.

    Remedy: Spartan will notify its customers and replace the spring beam with a heavy duty version which is 2" thick and replace the shock absorbers free of charge. Owner notification began september 24, 2001. Owners who take…

    Model years: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

Other Spartan 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.