Champion International Defender. Published by Transport Canada as 2010417 on 18 November 2010. System: Heater And Defroster.
What the notice says On certain vehicles equipped with Trans Air TA 73 evaporators, should an electrical short occur in the "low or medium speed" circuit of the blower power resistor, while the blower is in high speed, the short could cause the supply voltage to feedback through the resistor to ground, not drawing enough current to trip …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2010417
- Recall date
- 18 November 2010
- Make
- Champion
- Models
- International Defender
- Model years
- 2007
- Vehicle class
- Bus
- System
- Heater And Defroster
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles equipped with Trans Air TA 73 evaporators, should an electrical short occur in the "low or medium speed" circuit of the blower power resistor, while the blower is in high speed, the short could cause the supply voltage to feedback through the resistor to ground, not drawing enough current to trip the fuse, but causing the resistor temperature to rise to a point where it will melt and possibly ignite the plastic blower housing to which it is mounted. In some cases, the overheating could cause a vehicle fire which could result in property damage and/or personal injury. Correction: Dealers will install a fuse link to both blower resistors.
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 2010417.
Champion elsewhere in this register
Champion is named on 20 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2010102 · 31 March 2010 · International High Floor, Ez Trans, International Low Floor · Electrical
- 2010092 · 26 March 2010 · Crusader · Other
- 2010093 · 26 March 2010 · Defender, Challenger · Other
- 2011092 · 1 March 2011 · Defender, Challenger · Accessories
- 2008241 · 9 July 2008 · International High Floor, International Low Floor, Cts-Re · Electrical
- 2013302 · 16 September 2013 · Challenger, International High Floor, Defender · Electrical
- 2014251 · 27 June 2014 · HC Platinum · Other
- 2006146 · 20 June 2006 · Boat Trailer · Structure
The same system: Heater And Defroster
113 notices in this register name Heater And Defroster. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2010362 · 21 October 2010 · Endeavor · Heater And Defroster
- 2010143 · 3 May 2010 · HDX Non-School Bus, HDX School Bus · Heater And Defroster
- 2010072 · 11 March 2010 · Express, Savana · Heater And Defroster
- 2011074 · 21 February 2011 · Yukon XL, Yukon, Avalanche · Heater And Defroster
- 2011103 · 4 March 2011 · SRX, Lacrosse · Heater And Defroster
- 2009363 · 21 December 2009 · Equinox, Terrain · Heater And Defroster
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This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Champion Defender, 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 Champion: 20 in the register, and 468 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2010.
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