Suzuki Vitara. Published by Transport Canada as 2000007 on 16 November 1999. System: Lights And Instruments.
What the notice says Certain vehicles do not comply with the requirements of CMVSS 108 - Lighting System and Retroreflective Devices. Vehicles may have an inoperative brake lamp-actuating switch. If this switch does not function properly when the brake pedal is depressed, the brake lights may not come on. Correction: Brake …
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Suzuki VITARA in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Suzuki VITARA is named on 7 American notices, 22 British, 8 European and 6 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
The European register
The Israeli 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
- 2000007
- Recall date
- 16 November 1999
- Make
- Suzuki
- Models
- Vitara
- Model years
- 1999
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Lights And Instruments
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 2,350
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain vehicles do not comply with the requirements of CMVSS 108 - Lighting System and Retroreflective Devices. Vehicles may have an inoperative brake lamp-actuating switch. If this switch does not function properly when the brake pedal is depressed, the brake lights may not come on. Correction: Brake lamp-actuating switch 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 2000007.
Suzuki elsewhere in this register
Suzuki is named on 132 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1999198 · 29 October 1999 · Gsx1300rx · Engine
- 1999105 · 31 May 1999 · Gsx-R750, Gsx-R600 · Engine
- 2000036 · 21 January 2000 · SV650, Sv650s · Engine
- 2000086 · 17 February 2000 · Sidekick · Suspension
- 2000190 · 15 September 2000 · Grand Vitara · Other
- 1998252 · 29 December 1998 · Esteem · Electrical
- 2000254 · 16 October 2000 · Gsx1300r · Powertrain
- 1998230 · 24 November 1998 · Tl1000rw, Gsx-R750 · Fuel System
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.
- 1999223 · 30 November 1999 · Tiburon · Lights And Instruments
- 1999201 · 29 October 1999 · B Series · Lights And Instruments
- 1999202 · 29 October 1999 · Tracker · Lights And Instruments
- 1999178 · 19 October 1999 · Ranger, Explorer · Lights And Instruments
- 1999238 · 30 December 1999 · Quest, Frontier · Lights And Instruments
- 1999173 · 28 September 1999 · XC · 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 Suzuki: 132 in the register, and 240 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1999.
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