Blue Bird All American School Bus. Published by Transport Canada as 2013265 on 2 August 2013. System: Structure.
What the notice says Certain school buses may not comply with the requirements of Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 221 - School Bus Body Joint Strength. Adhesive required to meet the requirements of the standard may have been omitted from window body panel joints on vehicles equipped with optional transit-style sliding windows. This …
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Blue Bird ALL AMERICAN SCHOOL BUS in the other registers
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The American register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2013265
- Recall date
- 2 August 2013
- Make
- Blue Bird
- Models
- All American School Bus
- Model years
- 2007 to 2013
- Vehicle class
- School Bus
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 7
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain school buses may not comply with the requirements of Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 221 - School Bus Body Joint Strength. Adhesive required to meet the requirements of the standard may have been omitted from window body panel joints on vehicles equipped with optional transit-style sliding windows. This could increase the risk of injury to occupants in a crash. Correction: Dealers will install additional rivets to increase joint strength.
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 2013265.
Blue Bird elsewhere in this register
Blue Bird is named on 242 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2013383 · 4 November 2013 · All American Non-School Bus, Conventional Non-School Bus · Suspension
- 2013384 · 4 November 2013 · Conventional School Bus, All American School Bus · Suspension
- 2013411 · 22 November 2013 · Ultra Low Floor Transit Bus · Electrical
- 2013413 · 26 November 2013 · Vision School Bus, All American School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2013414 · 26 November 2013 · All American Non-School Bus, Vision Non-School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2013107 · 8 April 2013 · All American School Bus · Electrical
- 2013108 · 8 April 2013 · All American Non-School Bus · Electrical
- 2013072 · 5 March 2013 · L4re · Structure
The same system: Structure
800 notices in this register name Structure. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2013308 · 17 September 2013 · Ah85, Ah Series · Structure
- 2013309 · 17 September 2013 · G5 School Bus · Structure
- 2013313 · 18 September 2013 · Minotour Bus · Structure
- 2013317 · 20 September 2013 · Corolla · Structure
- 2013322 · 23 September 2013 · Mazda6 · Structure
- 2013220 · 26 June 2013 · Grand Cherokee, Liberty · Structure
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This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Blue Bird All American School Bus, 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 Blue Bird: 242 in the register, and 466 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2013.
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