Spartan Motors USA (Spartan) is recalling certain model year 2008-2010 Gladiator, and MetroStar emergency vehicles manufactured December 12, 2008, to August 6, 2010. The affected vehicles have mirror lenses that may fall off due to vibration.
Visibility & wipers
Spartan Gladiator Visibility problems by year
1 complaints filed with NHTSA about the Spartan Gladiator's visibility & wipers. Windshields, wipers, defrosters, mirrors, backup cameras and glare.
Visibility complaints by model year
Visibility recalls
Spartan Motors Chassis is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 Gladiator, Metro Star, Metro Star-X, and Force emergency rescue chassis cabs built between October 1, 2012, through October 31, 2012. The wiper motor shaft and the wiper arm shaft have...
Latest Gladiator visibility complaints
The wiper motor on a new fire apparatus fails during use. The wiper motor has been replaced four times in six months. Local dealer has replaced the entire wiper and linkage once. The spartan gladiator chassis was placed in service 11/2019 and the first failure was 2/6/20. The motor was replaced. The next failure was 2/28/20. The motor was replaced again. On 4/1 the truck went to the dealer for another wiper motor for a failure. On 6/18 the truck went out of service again with a faulty wiper motor. The front line fire apparatus will be out of service for nearly a week waiting on a new wiper motor. There is no apparent fix for the issue other than replacing the wiper motor as it fails.
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