Visibility: defroster/defogger/hvac system: heater core (Ashley)
Vehicle recall 89V-151. NHTSA received ASHLEY EMERGENCY VEHICLES’s report on Oct 1, 1989.
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The short answer
NHTSA received ASHLEY EMERGENCY VEHICLES’s report on Oct 1, 1989. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 27, 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.
HEATER HOSE MAY BE INCORRECTLY ROUTED.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Visibility: defroster/defogger/hvac system: heater core.
What should you do?
REROUTE HOSE AS NECESSARY.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: SYSTEM: HEATER HOSE.VEHICLE DESCRIPTION: AMBULANCE BUILT ON FORD E350 CHASSIS.CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECT:HOSE COULD WEAR THROUGH AND LEAK WHICH COULD RESULT INAN UNDERHOOD FIRE.
- Check a vehicle by its VIN at NHTSA: the recalls still open on it are listed there.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 263 vehicles potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.
- Ashley Ambulanceand 1985, 1986 and 1987, before the model years listed here
Who is recalling it?
- Made by ASHLEY EMERGENCY VEHICLES.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Whether one vehicle or seat has been fixed: only its maker, or NHTSA’s lookup with a VIN, can say.
- This recall names only model years before 2015, which have no pages here. Your VIN, at NHTSA, says which recalls are open on a vehicle.
- 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 27, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 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 27, 2026.