Western Star Conventional. Published by Transport Canada as 1989041 on 28 March 1989. System: Steering.
What the notice says Certain trucks could experience fatigue cracking of the axle beam which in turn could result in complete rupture of the forged centre section of the beam. A beam failure could result in loss of vehicle control and a crash without prior warning. Correction: axle beams will be replaced on affected vehicles.
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.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1989041
- Recall date
- 28 March 1989
- Make
- Western Star
- Models
- Conventional
- Model years
- 1988 to 1989
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 43
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain trucks could experience fatigue cracking of the axle beam which in turn could result in complete rupture of the forged centre section of the beam. A beam failure could result in loss of vehicle control and a crash without prior warning. Correction: axle beams will be replaced on affected vehicles.
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 1989041.
Western Star elsewhere in this register
Western Star is named on 210 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1989016 · 9 February 1989 · Conventional · Engine
- 1989005 · 4 January 1989 · Conventional · Steering
- 1989142 · 4 October 1989 · Conventional · Seats And Restraints
- 1989176 · 19 December 1989 · Conventional · Engine
- 1988150 · 7 November 1988 · Conventional · Seats And Restraints
- 1988122 · 19 August 1988 · Conventional · Steering
- 1988115 · 5 August 1988 · Conventional · Steering
- 1988109 · 18 July 1988 · Conventional · Other
The same system: Steering
582 notices in this register name Steering. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1989042 · 29 March 1989 · Truck, Brigadier · Steering
- 1989038 · 22 March 1989 · C.o.e., Conventional · Steering
- 1989023 · 24 February 1989 · 379, 362, 378 · Steering
- 1989020 · 20 February 1989 · 5070, 2654, 2554 · Steering
- 1989010 · 19 January 1989 · Super Duty · Steering
- 1989005 · 4 January 1989 · Conventional · Steering
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 Western Star: 210 in the register, and 178 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1989.
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