Pierce Custom Contender. Published by Transport Canada as 2009289 on 6 October 2009. System: Emissions.
What the notice says The emergency vehicle applications that are subject of this recall are designed with a dash-mounted switch that enables the vehicle operator to inhibit the aftertreatment diesel particulate filter regeneration in environments where the operator believes it may be unsafe for elevated exhaust temperatures. Due to an …
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Pierce CUSTOM CONTENDER in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Pierce CUSTOM CONTENDER is named on 2 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
- 2009289
- Recall date
- 6 October 2009
- Make
- Pierce
- Models
- Custom Contender
- Model years
- 2009
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Emissions
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 3
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
The emergency vehicle applications that are subject of this recall are designed with a dash-mounted switch that enables the vehicle operator to inhibit the aftertreatment diesel particulate filter regeneration in environments where the operator believes it may be unsafe for elevated exhaust temperatures. Due to an issue with the logic in the Electronic Control Module (ECM) software in certain vehicles, the switch may not function correctly, leading the operator to believe that the switch is in "inhibit" mode when, in fact, it is not. As a consequence, the operator may unknowingly permit hot exhaust gases to exit the vehicle tailpipe, increase the risk of melting or burning of nearby surfaces, or a fire, causing property damage, personal injury or death. Correction: Cummins dealers will upgrade the ECM software.
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 2009289.
Pierce elsewhere in this register
Pierce is named on 38 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2009238 · 6 August 2009 · Impel, Velocity · Electrical
- 2009239 · 6 August 2009 · Velocity, Impel · Structure
- 2009236 · 5 August 2009 · Custom Contender · Steering
- 2010182 · 3 June 2010 · Velocity, Arrow XT · Engine
- 2010257 · 3 August 2010 · Custom Contender · Other
- 2010318 · 21 September 2010 · Custom Contender · Electrical
- 2010319 · 21 September 2010 · Dash, Lance, Enforcer · Steering
- 2008352 · 26 September 2008 · Arrow, Dash, Dash D8000 · Steering
The same system: Emissions
175 notices in this register name Emissions. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2009256 · 8 September 2009 · T370, T270, T300 · Emissions
- 2009326 · 16 November 2009 · Business Class M2 · Emissions
- 2009064 · 2 March 2009 · Scarabeo 200 · Emissions
- 2009059 · 27 February 2009 · L-Line, Columbia · Emissions
- 2009060 · 27 February 2009 · L-Line · Emissions
- 2009024 · 27 January 2009 · Tioga SL, Jamboree Sport, Tioga · Emissions
Reading this against the source
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This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Pierce Custom Contender, 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 Pierce: 38 in the register, and 368 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2009.
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