Freightliner Columbia, Business Class M2, Acterra, Century, A-Line, L-Line. Published by Transport Canada as 2004058 on 13 February 2004. System: Powertrain.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the tapered joint that attaches the shifter to the transmission may separate making it difficult to put the transmission into gear. The driver may not be able to engage a transmission gear, which would eliminate engine braking and disable the vehicle from moving under its own power. Correction: …
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.
Freightliner COLUMBIA in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Freightliner COLUMBIA is named on 3 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
- 2004058
- Recall date
- 13 February 2004
- Make
- Freightliner, Sterling
- Models
- Columbia, Business Class M2, Acterra, Century, A-Line, L-Line
- Model years
- 2003 to 2004
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Powertrain
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 741
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the tapered joint that attaches the shifter to the transmission may separate making it difficult to put the transmission into gear. The driver may not be able to engage a transmission gear, which would eliminate engine braking and disable the vehicle from moving under its own power. Correction: Dealer will re-secure the shift lever to the transmission.
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 2004058.
Freightliner elsewhere in this register
Freightliner is named on 376 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2004036 · 29 January 2004 · MC Shuttle Bus Chassis, Fs-65 School Bus Chassis, XC RV Chassis · Steering
- 2004166 · 19 May 2004 · Business Class M2 · Other
- 2004200 · 17 June 2004 · Acterra, Business Class, Business Class M2 · Suspension
- 2004428 · 8 December 2004 · 4900, At9500, Columbia · Powertrain
- 2004429 · 8 December 2004 · FLD · Brakes
- 2003348 · 24 December 2003 · Columbia, Coronado, Century · Brakes
- 2003322 · 9 December 2003 · Coronado · Steering
- 2003179 · 29 July 2003 · Argosy, FLD, FLB · Suspension
The same system: Powertrain
823 notices in this register name Powertrain. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2004060 · 16 February 2004 · D40lf Transit Bus · Powertrain
- 2004063 · 17 February 2004 · Cayenne S, Cayenne, Cayenne Turbo · Powertrain
- 2004040 · 30 January 2004 · S-Type, XK, XJ · Powertrain
- 2004004 · 9 January 2004 · Road Star (xv16) · Powertrain
- 2004005 · 9 January 2004 · Road Star (xv17) · Powertrain
- 2004143 · 23 April 2004 · TL, CL, MDX · Powertrain
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 Freightliner Business Class M2, 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 Freightliner: 376 in the register, and 449 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2004.
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