Wheels (Cragar)
Vehicle equipment recall 80E-027. NHTSA received CRAGAR’s report on Oct 27, 1980.
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The short answer
NHTSA received CRAGAR’s report on Oct 27, 1980. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 20, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
The notice gives no hazard in a field of its own.
THE WELDS ATTACHING THE CENTER MEMBER TO THE RIM MAY HAVE PENETRATED THE RIM THICKNESS TO AN UNACCEPTABLE DEPTH.
THIS WOULD LEAVE AN UNDERCUT AT THE POINT OF ATTACHMENT, WHICH COULD CAUSE THE WELD TO FAIL.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Wheels.
What should you do?
DEFECTIVE WHEELS WILL BE REPLACED AT NO COST TO OWNER.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE CATEGORY: PASSENGER VEHICLES.SYSTEM: SUSPENSION; WHEEL RIM.CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECT: WELD FAILURE RESULTS IN SEPARATION IN THE RIM MATERIALAT THE POINT OF ATTACHMENT OF CENTER MEMBER TO THE RIM. THIS MAY CAUSE LOSS OFVEHICLE CONTROL AND AN ACCIDENT.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 517 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Cragar CragarBuilt from Aug 1, 1980 to Oct 1, 1980
Who is recalling it?
- Made by CRAGAR.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Which ones, by part or lot: the recall’s report on NHTSA’s site gives them where the maker did; this file gives part numbers only where its maker listed them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file before 2010 (FLAT_RCL_PRE_2010).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
Vehicle, car seat, tire and vehicle equipment recalls, owner complaints and crash ratings are from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Copied on Oct 20, 2026.