Freightliner Mt45 Custom Chassis, Mt35 Custom Chassis. Published by Transport Canada as 1999197 on 29 October 1999. System: Steering.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the tie rod end can pull outboard and separate from the tie rod tube. This condition may occur as a result of improper thread engagement between the tie rod threads and the tie rod tube threads. Improper thread engagement plus the possibility of improper clamp load on the tube clamp could cause …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1999197
- Recall date
- 29 October 1999
- Make
- Freightliner
- Models
- MT45 Custom Chassis, MT35 Custom Chassis
- Model years
- 1996 to 1998
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 8
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the tie rod end can pull outboard and separate from the tie rod tube. This condition may occur as a result of improper thread engagement between the tie rod threads and the tie rod tube threads. Improper thread engagement plus the possibility of improper clamp load on the tube clamp could cause separation of the tie rod tube and loss of steering control.
Correction: Tie rod assembly will be replaced.
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 1999197.
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.
- 1999172 · 28 September 1999 · FLN · Steering
- 1999148 · 10 August 1999 · L-Line, FLN, FLC · Engine
- 1999152 · 9 August 1999 · FLN, FLD, Lt7500 · Suspension
- 1999125 · 24 June 1999 · FL70, FL50, FL60 · Powertrain
- 1999123 · 21 June 1999 · FLN · Steering
- 1999124 · 21 June 1999 · Argosy · Electrical
- 1999109 · 7 June 1999 · FL60, FL70, FL50 · Brakes
- 1999110 · 7 June 1999 · XC Chassis · Lights And Instruments
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.
- 1999205 · 12 November 1999 · 9200i, 9400i, 9100i · Steering
- 1999208 · 15 November 1999 · Range Rover · Steering
- 1999211 · 15 November 1999 · Es 300, Camry · Steering
- 1999213 · 15 November 1999 · SLS, STS, Lesabre · Steering
- 1999227 · 15 December 1999 · Grand Cherokee · Steering
- 1999123 · 21 June 1999 · FLN · Steering
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 Freightliner Mt45, 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 Freightliner: 376 in the register, and 240 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1999.
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