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Blue Bird Ultra Low Floor Transit Bus. Published by Transport Canada as 2005011 on 14 January 2005. System: Other.

What the notice says Certain Commercial series Ultra LF model buses do not comply with the requirements of CMVSS 217. The striker plate at the bottom of the Hehr emergency pushout windows can wear a groove into the emergency release bolt. If this groove becomes deep enough, the emergency pushout window may fail to open as intended when …

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.

What Transport Canada published

Recall number
2005011
Recall date
14 January 2005
Make
Blue Bird
Models
Ultra Low Floor Transit Bus
Model years
2002 to 2005
Vehicle class
Bus
System
Other
Raised as
Safety MFR
Vehicles affected
5
Register
Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database

Certain Commercial series Ultra LF model buses do not comply with the requirements of CMVSS 217. The striker plate at the bottom of the Hehr emergency pushout windows can wear a groove into the emergency release bolt. If this groove becomes deep enough, the emergency pushout window may fail to open as intended when released, thus potentially trapping passengers or at least delaying their escape. Correction: Hehr International will notify owners of the non-compliance and will provide a remedy on behalf of Blue Bird Corporation.

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 2005011.

The Canadian register on this site

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.

The same system: Other

398 notices in this register name Other. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.

Reading this against the source

This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.

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 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 404 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2005.

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