Recall Register

Spartan Highlander: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Spartan Highlander, model years 1993 to 2001. NHTSA has 8 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 7 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19931
  2. 19941
  3. 19952
  4. 19962
  5. 19981
  6. 20000
  7. 20010
Spartan Highlander: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2001 Spartan Highlander NHTSA page05438%
2000 Spartan Highlander NHTSA page03263%
1998 Spartan Highlander NHTSA page100%262
1996 Spartan Highlander200%8,237
1995 Spartan Highlander200%8,374
1994 Spartan Highlander NHTSA page100%7,633
1993 Spartan Highlander NHTSA page100%7,633

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

10 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Spartan Highlander: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling3003
Structure2002
Power Train1001
Child Seat1001
Service Brakes, Hydraulic1001
Seat Belts1001
Visibility1001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Spartan Highlander, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1996, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Spartan Highlander, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2001, with 5 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Spartan: all 47 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Spartan Highlander: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/spartan/highlander/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
SPARTAN MOTORS, INC.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Spartan Highlander model years have the most recall campaigns?
1996 with 2, 1995 with 2, 1998 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Spartan Highlander model year has the most complaints?
The 2001 model year, with 5 of the 8 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Spartan Highlander name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 3 component mentions. Structure: 2 component mentions. Power Train: 1 component mention.