Thomas Built Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus, B2 School Bus Chassis. Published by Transport Canada as 2009341 on 1 December 2009. System: Suspension.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, fasteners used to connect the rear suspension spring to the suspension hanger bracket may not have been torque to specification during vehicle assembly. Under torqued fasteners may loosen and fall out, allowing the rear suspension to become misaligned. This could result in a vehicle crash …
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.
Thomas Built SAF-T-LINER C2 SCHOOL BUS in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Thomas Built SAF-T-LINER C2 SCHOOL BUS is named on 18 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2009341
- Recall date
- 1 December 2009
- Make
- Thomas Built, Freightliner Custom Chassis (fccc)
- Models
- Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus, B2 School Bus Chassis
- Model years
- 2008 to 2010
- Vehicle class
- School Bus
- System
- Suspension
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 506
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, fasteners used to connect the rear suspension spring to the suspension hanger bracket may not have been torque to specification during vehicle assembly. Under torqued fasteners may loosen and fall out, allowing the rear suspension to become misaligned. This could result in a vehicle crash causing property damage, personal injury or death. Correction: Dealers will torque fasteners 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 2009341.
Thomas Built elsewhere in this register
Thomas Built is named on 214 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2009342 · 1 December 2009 · Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus, B2 School Bus Chassis · Brakes
- 2009343 · 1 December 2009 · Mvp-Ef Non-School Bus, Mvp-Ef School Bus · Other
- 2009338 · 26 November 2009 · RV Chassis, Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus · Brakes
- 2009286 · 5 October 2009 · Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus, Saf-T-Liner HDX School Bus · Other
- 2009250 · 26 August 2009 · Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus, Saf-T-Liner C2 Non-School Bus · Other
- 2009223 · 21 July 2009 · Business Class M2, Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus · Steering
- 2009173 · 9 June 2009 · Business Class M2, Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus, 7500 · Brakes
- 2009101 · 7 April 2009 · Saf-T-Liner Fs-65 School Bus · Brakes
The same system: Suspension
746 notices in this register name Suspension. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2009345 · 9 December 2009 · F-650, F-750 · Suspension
- 2009366 · 24 December 2009 · FX Nytro (fx10) · Suspension
- 2009323 · 12 November 2009 · Challenger, Charger, 300 · Suspension
- 2009315 · 30 October 2009 · Sportsman XP 550, Sportsman XP 850, Sportsman 550 · Suspension
- 2009312 · 27 October 2009 · Super Lite · Suspension
- 2009305 · 22 October 2009 · T800, T660, T2000 · Suspension
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 Thomas Built Saf-T-Liner C2, 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 Thomas Built: 214 in the register, and 368 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2009.
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