Mercury Zephyr, Cougar, Thunderbird, Fairmont. Published by Transport Canada as 1980021 on 20 February 1980. System: Brakes.
What the notice says Vehicles may have been equipped with rear axle assemblies containing brake assemblies intended for use on 1980 mustang and capri vehicles .these vehicles may not comply with the requirements of canada motor vehicle safety standard 105 - hydraulic brake systems.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Mercury ZEPHYR in the other registers
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The American register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1980021
- Recall date
- 20 February 1980
- Make
- Mercury, Ford
- Models
- Zephyr, Cougar, Thunderbird, Fairmont
- Model years
- 1980
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Brakes
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 223
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
VEHICLES MAY HAVE BEEN EQUIPPED WITH REAR AXLE ASSEMBLIES CONTAINING BRAKE ASSEMBLIES INTENDED FOR USE ON 1980 MUSTANG AND CAPRI VEHICLES .THESE VEHICLES MAY NOT COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF CANADA MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY STANDARD 105 - HYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEMS.
Transport Canada recorded this notice in capitals, as its system did for many years. It is reproduced here exactly as published.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1980021.
Mercury elsewhere in this register
Mercury is named on 243 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1980022 · 20 February 1980 · Zephyr, Monarch, Granada · Not Entered
- 1980023 · 20 February 1980 · Capri · Not Entered
- 1980024 · 20 February 1980 · Capri · Not Entered
- 1980025 · 20 February 1980 · Capri · Not Entered
- 1980073 · 7 May 1980 · Capri, Mustang · Not Entered
- 1980106 · 13 August 1980 · Marquis, Meteor, Ltd · Not Entered
- 1980117 · 9 September 1980 · Custom 500, Marquis · Not Entered
- 1980129 · 14 October 1980 · Continental, Marquis, Ltd · Not Entered
The same system: Brakes
791 notices in this register name Brakes. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1980033 · 13 March 1980 · Tour Glide (flt) · Brakes
- 1980013 · 22 January 1980 · C50, C60 · Brakes
- 1980126 · 1 October 1980 · C7 · Brakes
- 1980131 · 15 October 1980 · DC, C · Brakes
- 1979132 · 30 July 1979 · Sportster 1000 (xlch), Sportster 1000 (xlh), XLS 1000 Roadster · Brakes
- 1979133 · 30 July 1979 · XLS 1000 Roadster, Electra Glide (flh), Sportster 1000 (xlh) · Brakes
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Triumph Thunderbird, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Mercury: 243 in the register, and 167 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1980.
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