Freightliner Truck. Published by Transport Canada as 1981032 on 6 March 1981. System: Not Entered.
What the notice says Cotter pins may be missing at the ball joint connections of the drag link ends and tie rod ends in the lower front axle steering system. this can result in disconnection of the drag link causing loss of steering control.
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Freightliner TRUCK in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Freightliner TRUCK is named on 32 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1981032
- Recall date
- 6 March 1981
- Make
- Freightliner
- Models
- Truck
- Model years
- 1980
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- Vehicles affected
- 87
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
COTTER PINS MAY BE MISSING AT THE BALL JOINT CONNECTIONS OF THE DRAG LINK ENDS AND TIE ROD ENDS IN THE LOWER FRONT AXLE STEERING SYSTEM. THIS CAN RESULT IN DISCONNECTION OF THE DRAG LINK CAUSING LOSS OF STEERING CONTROL.
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 1981032.
Freightliner elsewhere in this register
Freightliner is named on 376 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1980168 · 12 December 1980 · Conventional, Coe · Not Entered
- 1980120 · 11 September 1980 · Truck · Not Entered
- 1980119 · 9 September 1980 · Truck · Not Entered
- 1980101 · 15 July 1980 · Truck · Not Entered
- 1980084 · 21 May 1980 · Truck · Not Entered
- 1979210 · 24 December 1979 · Truck · Not Entered
- 1979171 · 9 October 1979 · Truck · Not Entered
- 1983065 · 7 July 1983 · Truck · Not Entered
The same system: Not Entered
882 notices in this register name Not Entered. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1981031 · 5 March 1981 · 510 · Not Entered
- 1981033 · 12 March 1981 · 18 · Not Entered
- 1981034 · 12 March 1981 · Cougar, Thunderbird · Not Entered
- 1981036 · 24 March 1981 · Trailer · Not Entered
- 1981037 · 26 March 1981 · Phoenix, Citation, Century · Not Entered
- 1981038 · 26 March 1981 · El Camino, Caballero, Century · Not Entered
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
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 register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Freightliner: 376 in the register, and 122 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1981.
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