Toyota Echo. Published by Transport Canada as 2002179 on 2 October 2002. System: Brakes.
What the notice says On certain vehicles driven under repeated start and stop operation in extremely low ambient temperatures and in deep snow, there is a possibility that snow may accumulate in large quantities inside the rear wheel and freeze. Due to the shape of the rear brake tubes, the snow frozen inside the wheel may contact the …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2002179
- Recall date
- 2 October 2002
- Make
- Toyota
- Models
- Echo
- Model years
- 2001 to 2002
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Brakes
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 27,351
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles driven under repeated start and stop operation in extremely low ambient temperatures and in deep snow, there is a possibility that snow may accumulate in large quantities inside the rear wheel and freeze. Due to the shape of the rear brake tubes, the snow frozen inside the wheel may contact the rear brake tube during wheel rotation. In the worst case, if this condition occurs frequently, the rear brake tube could be damaged, which could result in leakage of brake fluid, causing a decrease in brake effectiveness. Correction: Dealers will replace the rear brake tubes.
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 2002179.
Toyota elsewhere in this register
Toyota is named on 312 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2002142 · 30 July 2002 · Highlander · Fuel System
- 2003004 · 13 January 2003 · Celica · Other
- 2003044 · 21 February 2003 · Celica · Fuel System
- 2003099 · 9 April 2003 · 4runner · Fuel System
- 2003130 · 15 May 2003 · Tacoma · Fuel System
- 2001282 · 5 December 2001 · Camry · Airbag
- 2003193 · 11 August 2003 · Sienna · Fuel System
- 2001242 · 10 October 2001 · Echo · Brakes
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.
- 2002202 · 1 November 2002 · Open Top Trailer · Brakes
- 2002206 · 13 November 2002 · Frontier, Xterra · Brakes
- 2002207 · 14 November 2002 · All American Non-School Bus, Commercial Series Transit Bus, All American School Bus · Brakes
- 2002209 · 14 November 2002 · Flat Deck, Logging, Specialty Beet Hauler · Brakes
- 2002223 · 21 November 2002 · Business Class · Brakes
- 2002230 · 27 November 2002 · Tanker Trailer · Brakes
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Toyota: 312 in the register, and 246 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2002.
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