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Spartan SB2142 Recalls & Complaints by Model Year

NHTSA lists 2 safety recalls and 0 owner complaints across 4 model years of the Spartan SB2142 (1995–1998).

2
safety recalls, all years
0
owner complaints, all years
1997
year with most recalls

Pick your Spartan SB2142 model year

Model yearRecallsComplaints
1998 Spartan SB214220
1997 Spartan SB214220
1996 Spartan SB214210
1995 Spartan SB214210

All Spartan SB2142 recalls (2)

Every NHTSA safety campaign that lists a Spartan SB2142, most recent first, with the model years each one covers.

  1. Air suspension system (suspension)

    NHTSA 00V216000 Reported 100 vehicles potentially affected SPARTAN MOTORS, INC.

    Vehicle description: front engine carpenter school buses with front air suspensions. Due to frame flexing, both the track bar mount, mounting bolts, and the steering box mounting bolts could loosen which could allow subsequent fracture or torque loss of these bolts. The spring beam could also fracture.

    Remedy: Dealers will install three structural, welded cross-members to tie together the right and left frame rails, all located forward of the front axle. Stiffening gussets have been added to existing frame cross-members and…

    Model years: 1997, 1998

  2. Suspension

    NHTSA 99V008000 Reported 542 vehicles potentially affected SPARTAN MOTORS, INC.

    Vehicle description: carpenter front engine, spring suspension school buses. Due to frame flexing, both the front spring hanger mounting bolts and the steering box mounting bolts can loosen allowing subsequent fracture or torque loss of these bolts.

    Remedy: Dealers will add three structural, welded cross-members to tie together the right and left frame rails, all located forward of the front axle.

    Model years: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998

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.