Blue Bird Tc/2000 School Bus, All American School Bus. Published by Transport Canada as 2003253 on 21 October 2003. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the bolts that attach the rear of the driver's platform to the body floor structure may have been omitted. Correction: The body structure joint at the rear of the driver's platform is to be inspected and any bolts found missing will be installed.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Blue Bird TC in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Blue Bird TC is named on 8 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American 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
- 2003253
- Recall date
- 21 October 2003
- Make
- Blue Bird
- Models
- TC/2000 School Bus, All American School Bus
- Model years
- 1991 to 2004
- Vehicle class
- School Bus
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 216
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the bolts that attach the rear of the driver's platform to the body floor structure may have been omitted. Correction: The body structure joint at the rear of the driver's platform is to be inspected and any bolts found missing will be installed.
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 2003253.
Blue Bird elsewhere in this register
Blue Bird is named on 242 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2003248 · 17 October 2003 · Vision School Bus · Electrical
- 2003233 · 29 September 2003 · Vision School Bus · Electrical
- 2003319 · 8 December 2003 · Vision School Bus · Brakes
- 2004156 · 4 May 2004 · All American School Bus · Other
- 2004157 · 7 May 2004 · All American Non-School Bus, All American School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2004283 · 6 August 2004 · Ultra Low Floor Transit Bus, M380 · Brakes
- 2002207 · 14 November 2002 · All American Non-School Bus, Commercial Series Transit Bus, All American School Bus · Brakes
- 2002163 · 12 September 2002 · All American School Bus, TC/2000 Non-School Bus, Commercial Series Transit Bus · Visual System
The same system: Seats And Restraints
900 notices in this register name Seats And Restraints. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2003235 · 10 October 2003 · XC90 · Seats And Restraints
- 2003232 · 26 September 2003 · Minibus · Seats And Restraints
- 2003228 · 18 September 2003 · SRX, CTS · Seats And Restraints
- 2003323 · 10 December 2003 · Escape · Seats And Restraints
- 2003337 · 16 December 2003 · Tribute · Seats And Restraints
- 2003338 · 17 December 2003 · E Class, CLK Class, C Class · Seats And Restraints
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 Blue Bird All American School Bus, 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 Blue Bird: 242 in the register, and 350 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2003.
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