Smart Fortwo. Published by Transport Canada as 2012400 on 30 November 2012. System: Other.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, corrosion and/or dust accumulation may impair the function of the driver and passenger door latches and cause the latch pawl to stick. If this occurs, the door will not latch when shut and will remain unsecured. A vehicle operated in this condition would present a higher risk of personal injury …
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Smart FORTWO in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Smart FORTWO is named on 6 American notices, 13 British and 11 European. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
The European 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
- 2012400
- Recall date
- 30 November 2012
- Make
- Smart
- Models
- Fortwo
- Model years
- 2005 to 2006
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Other
- Raised as
- Safety TC
- Vehicles affected
- 10,242
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, corrosion and/or dust accumulation may impair the function of the driver and passenger door latches and cause the latch pawl to stick. If this occurs, the door will not latch when shut and will remain unsecured. A vehicle operated in this condition would present a higher risk of personal injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will replace the door latches with a modified version.
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 2012400.
Smart elsewhere in this register
Smart is named on 8 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2015135 · 27 March 2015 · Fortwo · Steering
- 2017143 · 15 March 2017 · Fortwo · Lights And Instruments
- 2017353 · 17 July 2017 · Fortwo · Brakes
- 2017354 · 17 July 2017 · Fortwo · Steering
- 2017394 · 15 August 2017 · Fortwo · Powertrain
- 2018215 · 27 April 2018 · Fortwo · Engine
- 2006228 · 18 September 2006 · Fortwo · Seats And Restraints
The same system: Other
398 notices in this register name Other. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2012404 · 3 December 2012 · C600 Sport · Other
- 2012418 · 11 December 2012 · Veloster · Other
- 2012423 · 12 December 2012 · X3-45 Coach · Other
- 2013001 · 31 December 2012 · Sierra HD, Escalade Esv, Avalanche · Other
- 2012319 · 26 September 2012 · Cross Roads, Hard Ball, Hammer S · Other
- 2012320 · 26 September 2012 · Ac 250-1 · Other
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 Smart Fortwo, 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 Smart: 8 in the register, and 444 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2012.
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