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Spartan Summit Recalls & Complaints by Model Year

NHTSA lists 4 safety recalls and 1 owner complaint across 4 model years of the Spartan Summit (1999–2002). The most-complained-about year is 2000.

4
safety recalls, all years
1
owner complaints, all years
1999
year with most recalls
2000
year with most complaints

Pick your Spartan Summit model year

Model yearRecallsComplaints
2002 Spartan Summit20
2001 Spartan Summit20
2000 Spartan Summit31
1999 Spartan Summit30

What Spartan Summit owners complain about

Across all model years, owners have filed 1 complaint with NHTSA. The 2000 model year has the most, with 1.

All Spartan Summit recalls (4)

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

  1. Foundation components (service brakes)

    NHTSA 04V311000 Reported 143 vehicles potentially affected SPARTAN CHASSIS, INC.

    Certain my 1999-2002 spartan summit motor homes, front engine school buses, and transit buses manufactured between february 25, 1999, and may 21, 2002, and equipped with dana front axle containing bosch hydraulic disc brakes with zero offset slide calipers (zops). Bosch has decided that the presence of corrosion in the vicinity of the…

    Remedy: Spartan will replace the brake calipers and pads. The recall began on january 24, 2005. Owners should contact spartan at 1-517-543-6400.

    Model years: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002

  2. Vehicle speed control

    NHTSA 02V004009 Reported 535 vehicles potentially affected SPARTAN MOTORS, INC.

    On certain motor homes and fire trucks equipped with electronic throttle control/accelerator pedals supplied by williams controls industries, the weld attaching the clevis to the plate has insufficient penetration and could allow the clevis to separate from the plate.

    Remedy: Williams controls is handling the replacement of this pedal. Owners who do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact williams control at 1-503-684-8600 or spartan at 1-800-722-3025.

    Model years: 2002

  3. Compressor (service brakes)

    NHTSA 01V111001 Reported 3,124 vehicles potentially affected SPARTAN MOTORS, INC.

    Vehicle description: motor homes equipped with cummins diesel engines. The internal front bushing can spin, causing damage to the air compressor, and possibly to the spindle drive at the rear face of the air compressor which is used to provide power to the vehicle hydraulic pump. Failure of the air compressor's spindle drive could lead…

    Remedy: Cummins will notify spartan customers and replace the compressor free of charge. Owner notification began march 30, 2001. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not…

    Model years: 1999, 2000, 2001

  4. Connection (steering)

    NHTSA 00V246207 Reported 860 vehicles potentially affected SPARTAN MOTORS, INC.

    Vehicle description: motor homes, transit and school buses equipped with trw drag links. Each drag link assembly contains two 20-edl model ball socket assemblies. Certain of the ball-socket bearings have a below specification case depth and/or hardness which can lead to premature wear out of the socket.

    Remedy: Spartan customers are being notified to contact trw for the free remedy repair.

    Model years: 1999, 2000

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.