Freightliner Business Class M2. Published by Transport Canada as 2011112 on 10 March 2011. System: Lights And Instruments.
What the notice says Certain trucks were equipped with headlights that fail to comply with the requirements of Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108 - Lighting System and Retroreflective Devices. The Standard requires headlights not be mounted lower than 559 mm and not higher than 1372 mm above the road surface. Improper headlamp …
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Freightliner BUSINESS CLASS M2 in the other registers
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2011112
- Recall date
- 10 March 2011
- Make
- Freightliner
- Models
- Business Class M2
- Model years
- 2011
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Lights And Instruments
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 32
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain trucks were equipped with headlights that fail to comply with the requirements of Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108 - Lighting System and Retroreflective Devices. The Standard requires headlights not be mounted lower than 559 mm and not higher than 1372 mm above the road surface. Improper headlamp height may result in incomplete illumination of the road surface, or may inhibit the ability of seeing pedestrians and other road users. This could result in a crash causing property damage and/or personal injury. Correction: Dealers will measure headlamp height and, for vehicles with lamps beyond the limit, will install new headlamps that lower the bulb center.
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 2011112.
Freightliner elsewhere in this register
Freightliner is named on 376 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2011075 · 21 February 2011 · Cascadia · Suspension
- 2011076 · 21 February 2011 · 4900, Cascadia · Electrical
- 2011163 · 20 April 2011 · 4900, Cascadia, 6900 · Brakes
- 2011172 · 27 April 2011 · Argosy, Business Class M2, 4900 · Powertrain
- 2011197 · 13 May 2011 · Cascadia · Other
- 2011010 · 7 January 2011 · Business Class M2 · Seats And Restraints
- 2011236 · 22 June 2011 · Columbia, A-Line, Century · Electrical
- 2011290 · 9 August 2011 · Coronado · Other
The same system: Lights And Instruments
900 notices in this register name Lights And Instruments. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2011127 · 21 March 2011 · Vision School Bus · Lights And Instruments
- 2011061 · 10 February 2011 · Fiesta · Lights And Instruments
- 2011162 · 20 April 2011 · Outlaw, Avanti · Lights And Instruments
- 2011176 · 27 April 2011 · Tucson · Lights And Instruments
- 2011027 · 20 January 2011 · Aspire · Lights And Instruments
- 2011223 · 9 June 2011 · Metro Star · Lights And Instruments
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Freightliner: 376 in the register, and 442 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2011.
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