Aston Martin Db7 Vantage Volante, Db7 Vantage Coupe. Published by Transport Canada as 2001181 on 9 July 2001. System: Electrical.
What the notice says On certain vehicles equipped with six cylinder and twelve cylinder engines. The steering column lighting switchgear has the potential to trap wires, leading to a partial loss of lighting functionality. Depending on which wires are trapped, the loss of lighting function can vary. Correction: Dealers will replace the …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2001181
- Recall date
- 9 July 2001
- Make
- Aston Martin
- Models
- DB7 Vantage Volante, DB7 Vantage Coupe
- Model years
- 1996 to 2001
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 79
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles equipped with six cylinder and twelve cylinder engines. The steering column lighting switchgear has the potential to trap wires, leading to a partial loss of lighting functionality. Depending on which wires are trapped, the loss of lighting function can vary. Correction: Dealers will replace the switchgear assembly.
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 2001181.
Aston Martin elsewhere in this register
Aston Martin is named on 28 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2000266 · 15 November 2000 · DB7 Vantage Volante, DB7 Vantage Coupe · Engine
- 2000042 · 24 February 2000 · DB7 Vantage · Suspension
- 2003082 · 27 March 2003 · DB7 Vantage Coupe, DB7 Vantage Volante · Steering
- 2004402 · 17 November 2004 · Vanquish V12, Vanquish S · Other
- 2005345 · 4 November 2005 · DB9 · Powertrain
- 1996199 · 9 December 1996 · DB7 Vantage · Lights And Instruments
- 2010343 · 8 October 2010 · DB9, Vantage V8, DBS Coupe · Suspension
- 2013185 · 29 May 2013 · Rapide, Virage, DBS · Powertrain
The same system: Electrical
686 notices in this register name Electrical. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2001210 · 13 August 2001 · Ram Van, Ram Wagon · Electrical
- 2001211 · 20 August 2001 · 5000 Series, 9000 Series · Electrical
- 2001213 · 22 August 2001 · Windstar · Electrical
- 2001214 · 22 August 2001 · Windstar · Electrical
- 2001224 · 31 August 2001 · Fb-65, Fs-65 · Electrical
- 2001227 · 12 September 2001 · PT Cruiser, Grand Cherokee · Electrical
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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 Aston Martin Vantage, 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 an Aston Martin: 28 in the register, and 301 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2001.
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