Recall Register

Spartan K3: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 41 recall campaigns for the Spartan K3, model years 2004 to 2025. NHTSA has 4 complaints on file for this model line. 21 of the 22 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. 20043
  2. 20054
  3. 20064
  4. 20074
  5. 20086
  6. 20094
  7. 20107
  8. 20119
  9. 20128
  10. 20139
  11. 20147
  12. 20159
  13. 20165
  14. 20177
  15. 20186
  16. 20194
  17. 20205
  18. 20216
  19. 20227
  20. 20234
  21. 20242
  22. 20251
Spartan K3: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Spartan K3 NHTSA page100%797
2024 Spartan K3200%3,133
2023 Spartan K3400%3,376
2022 Spartan K3700%8,217
2021 Spartan K3600%6,329
2020 Spartan K3500%6,292
2019 Spartan K3400%5,704
2018 Spartan K3600%8,515
2017 Spartan K3700%6,220
2016 Spartan K3500%3,399
2015 Spartan K3900%7,313
2014 Spartan K3700%7,861
2013 Spartan K3900%7,959
2012 Spartan K3821100%7,063
2011 Spartan K3900%10,976
2010 Spartan K371550%8,152
2009 Spartan K3400%5,830
2008 Spartan K3600%7,255
2007 Spartan K3400%6,542
2006 Spartan K3400%3,974
2005 Spartan K341550%1,313
2004 Spartan K3300%1,387

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

25 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 K3: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System2005
Power Train1604
Visibility1203
Service Brakes, Air802
Latches/Locks/Linkages802
Back Over Prevention401
Exterior Lighting401
Interior Lighting401
Seats401
Structure401

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Spartan K3, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 6 campaigns.
Complaints about the Spartan K3, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2007, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Spartan: all 47 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Spartan K3: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/spartan/k3/. 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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
Spartan Motors USA

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 K3 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2015 with 9, 2013 with 9, 2011 with 9. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Spartan K3 model year has the most complaints?
The 2012 model year, with 2 of the 4 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Spartan K3 name?
Electrical System: 5 component mentions. Power Train: 4 component mentions. Visibility: 3 component mentions.