Freightliner Truck. Published by Transport Canada as 1999064 on 15 April 1999. System: Brakes.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the automatic slack adjuster may not have had sufficient torque applied to the guide pawl cap screw. This condition may cause the brakes to gradually lose adjustment. This could result in loss of brake effectiveness and increased stopping distances which could in turn result in a vehicle crash. …
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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
- 1999064
- Recall date
- 15 April 1999
- Make
- Freightliner
- Models
- Truck
- Model years
- 1999
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Brakes
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 105
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the automatic slack adjuster may not have had sufficient torque applied to the guide pawl cap screw. This condition may cause the brakes to gradually lose adjustment. This could result in loss of brake effectiveness and increased stopping distances which could in turn result in a vehicle crash. Correction: The torque will be checked on the automatic slack adjuster guide pawl. If there is no torque, the brakes will be adjusted and the guide pawl will be tightened to 15-20 ft. lbs.
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 1999064.
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.
- 1999109 · 7 June 1999 · FL60, FL70, FL50 · Brakes
- 1999110 · 7 June 1999 · XC Chassis · Lights And Instruments
- 1999123 · 21 June 1999 · FLN · Steering
- 1999124 · 21 June 1999 · Argosy · Electrical
- 1999125 · 24 June 1999 · FL70, FL50, FL60 · Powertrain
- 1999002 · 13 January 1999 · Century · Visual System
- 1999152 · 9 August 1999 · FLN, FLD, Lt7500 · Suspension
- 1999148 · 10 August 1999 · L-Line, FLN, FLC · Engine
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.
- 1999100 · 26 May 1999 · Travelaire, Golden Falcon · Brakes
- 1999102 · 26 May 1999 · Explorer · Brakes
- 1999109 · 7 June 1999 · FL60, FL70, FL50 · Brakes
- 1999117 · 9 June 1999 · MX ZX 440 LC · Brakes
- 1999015 · 12 February 1999 · K Series, C Series · Brakes
- 1999121 · 21 June 1999 · WG, Autocar, WX · 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 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 240 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1999.
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