Blue Bird Vision School Bus. Published by Transport Canada as 2003319 on 8 December 2003. System: Brakes.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the under-hood firewall location of the air brake manifold may permit rainwater entry into the parking brake exhaust port fitting of the manifold. In freezing weather, this water could form ice blocking the exhaust port. When this occurs, the parking brake does not operate as designed. In the …
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Blue Bird VISION SCHOOL BUS in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Blue Bird VISION SCHOOL BUS is named on 50 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2003319
- Recall date
- 8 December 2003
- Make
- Blue Bird
- Models
- Vision School Bus
- Model years
- 2004
- Vehicle class
- School Bus
- System
- Brakes
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 3
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the under-hood firewall location of the air brake manifold may permit rainwater entry into the parking brake exhaust port fitting of the manifold. In freezing weather, this water could form ice blocking the exhaust port. When this occurs, the parking brake does not operate as designed. In the event that this condition should occur and the parking brake failed to apply, the bus could roll away resulting in property damage or personal injury. Correction: Dealer will install an air brake tubing extension to the exhaust port to relocate the opening away from the air brake valve manifold to prevent the potential for water to enter the exhaust port.
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 2003319.
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.
- 2003253 · 21 October 2003 · TC/2000 School Bus, All American School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2003248 · 17 October 2003 · Vision School Bus · Electrical
- 2003233 · 29 September 2003 · Vision School Bus · Electrical
- 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: 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.
- 2003328 · 11 December 2003 · Bonneville America, Speedmaster · Brakes
- 2003315 · 5 December 2003 · Rd8, CV, Rd6 · Brakes
- 2003304 · 27 November 2003 · Chief · Brakes
- 2003222 · 10 September 2003 · WX, WXLL · Brakes
- 2003215 · 5 September 2003 · 550 Maranello, 456m, 550 Barchetta · Brakes
- 2003207 · 4 September 2003 · 456m GT, 456m Gta · 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 Blue Bird: 242 in the register, and 350 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2003.
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