Western Star 4900. Published by Transport Canada as 2012168 on 22 May 2012. System: Electrical.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the forward cab crossmember may pinch power cables for the cab-mounted battery disconnect switch during cab articulation. This could cause an electrical short which could result in a vehicle fire causing property damage, personal injury or death. Correction: Dealers will relocate the power …
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Western Star 4900 in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Western Star 4900 is named on 26 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
- 2012168
- Recall date
- 22 May 2012
- Make
- Western Star
- Models
- 4900
- Model years
- 2009 to 2010
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 23
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the forward cab crossmember may pinch power cables for the cab-mounted battery disconnect switch during cab articulation. This could cause an electrical short which could result in a vehicle fire causing property damage, personal injury or death. Correction: Dealers will relocate the power cables.
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 2012168.
Western Star elsewhere in this register
Western Star is named on 210 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2012193 · 29 June 2012 · Cascadia, Business Class M2, Columbia · Steering
- 2012113 · 30 March 2012 · Cascadia, 4900 · Seats And Restraints
- 2012281 · 15 August 2012 · 114sd, Coronado, 4700 · Brakes
- 2012080 · 27 February 2012 · 4900, 4700, Century · Fuel System
- 2012357 · 19 October 2012 · Cascadia, Coronado, 4900 · Wheels
- 2011439 · 22 December 2011 · Business Class M2, 4900 · Engine
- 2011411 · 21 November 2011 · Columbia, Cascadia, Century · Other
- 2011407 · 17 November 2011 · 4900 · Suspension
The same system: Electrical
686 notices in this register name Electrical. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2012204 · 5 July 2012 · X3-45 Coach · Electrical
- 2012221 · 20 July 2012 · X3-45 Coach, Xl2-45 Entertainer Coach Shell, X3-45 Vip · Electrical
- 2012107 · 23 March 2012 · Conquest, Ultra Supreme, Yellowstone · Electrical
- 2012109 · 23 March 2012 · 5 Series, 6 Series · Electrical
- 2012223 · 23 July 2012 · Greyhawk Motorhome, Seneca Motorhome, Designer Fifth Wheel Trailer · Electrical
- 2012226 · 23 July 2012 · S, DS, Xu-Lsm · Electrical
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 Western Star 4900, 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 Western Star: 210 in the register, and 444 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2012.
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