Freightliner Truck. Published by Transport Canada as 1988134 on 23 September 1988. System: Lights And Instruments.
What the notice says Note: trucks equipped with bendix vigil ii lightbars.
resonators used in the manufacturing of vigil ii lightbars may cause unpredictable operation resulting in the possible loss of turn signals, hazard warning lights, high beam indicators or low air warning signal.
correction: all suspect lightbars will be …
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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
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1988134
- Recall date
- 23 September 1988
- Make
- Freightliner
- Models
- Truck
- Model years
- 1988
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Lights And Instruments
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 72
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
NOTE: TRUCKS EQUIPPED WITH BENDIX VIGIL II LIGHTBARS.
RESONATORS USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF VIGIL II LIGHTBARS MAY CAUSE UNPREDICTABLE OPERATION RESULTING IN THE POSSIBLE LOSS OF TURN SIGNALS, HAZARD WARNING LIGHTS, HIGH BEAM INDICATORS OR LOW AIR WARNING SIGNAL.
CORRECTION: ALL SUSPECT LIGHTBARS WILL BE REPLACED.
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 1988134.
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.
- 1988132 · 23 September 1988 · FLC112, Hcoe, Conventional · Engine
- 1988133 · 23 September 1988 · Hcoe, Conventional · Electrical
- 1988141 · 6 October 1988 · Conventional, Hcoe · Seats And Restraints
- 1988144 · 17 October 1988 · Conventional, Hcoe · Steering
- 1988120 · 17 August 1988 · Conventional, Flc11264, FLC112 · Steering
- 1988114 · 29 July 1988 · Hcoe, Conventional · Structure
- 1988159 · 21 November 1988 · FLD · Brakes
- 1989037 · 22 March 1989 · Hcoe, Conventional · Seats And Restraints
The same system: Lights And Instruments
900 notices in this register name Lights And Instruments. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1988165 · 5 December 1988 · Towing Dolly · Lights And Instruments
- 1988167 · 7 December 1988 · Utility Trailer, Challenger · Lights And Instruments
- 1988169 · 12 December 1988 · Sable · Lights And Instruments
- 1988170 · 14 December 1988 · Van Trailer · Lights And Instruments
- 1988171 · 15 December 1988 · Samurai · Lights And Instruments
- 1989012 · 27 January 1989 · Tank Trailer · Lights And Instruments
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 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 174 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1988.
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