Blue Bird All American School Bus. Published by Transport Canada as 2009198 on 6 July 2009. System: Steering.
What the notice says On certain school buses, the bolts that mount the steering gear to the frame may not have been properly torqued during vehicle assembly. Improperly torqued bolts may cause the steering gear to separate from the chassis, which could result in a vehicle crash causing property damage, personal injury or death. …
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Blue Bird ALL AMERICAN SCHOOL BUS in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Blue Bird ALL AMERICAN SCHOOL BUS is named on 31 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
- 2009198
- Recall date
- 6 July 2009
- Make
- Blue Bird
- Models
- All American School Bus
- Model years
- 2009
- Vehicle class
- School Bus
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 12
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain school buses, the bolts that mount the steering gear to the frame may not have been properly torqued during vehicle assembly. Improperly torqued bolts may cause the steering gear to separate from the chassis, which could result in a vehicle crash causing property damage, personal injury or death. Correction: Dealers will torque the steering gear mounting bolts to specs.
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 2009198.
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.
- 2009243 · 13 August 2009 · Vision School Bus · Steering
- 2009279 · 29 September 2009 · All American School Bus, Vision School Bus, Micro Bird School Bus · Other
- 2009083 · 12 March 2009 · Vision School Bus · Other
- 2009327 · 16 November 2009 · Vision School Bus · Other
- 2009051 · 20 February 2009 · Vision School Bus · Electrical
- 2009360 · 21 December 2009 · Micro Bird School Bus · Structure
- 2010016 · 26 January 2010 · All American School Bus, Vision School Bus, Conventional School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2010028 · 1 February 2010 · All American School Bus · Other
The same system: Steering
582 notices in this register name Steering. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2009210 · 13 July 2009 · 384, 389, T660 · Steering
- 2009223 · 21 July 2009 · Business Class M2, Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus · Steering
- 2009236 · 5 August 2009 · Custom Contender · Steering
- 2009136 · 11 May 2009 · Spyder · Steering
- 2009303 · 19 October 2009 · Rogue · Steering
- 2009322 · 10 November 2009 · Outlander Max 650, Outlander Max 800r, Outlander 800r · Steering
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 368 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2009.
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