Sterling Bullet. Published by Transport Canada as 2013423 on 27 November 2013. System: Steering.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the left outer tie rod ball stud could fracture, potentially resulting in a loss of vehicle control and a crash causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will install a redesigned left outer tie rod assembly. Note: This recall supersedes recall 2011-011 (FL-588). Vehicles that …
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Transport Canada carries this recall as 2013423, dated 27 November 2013. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 13V605, dated 29 November 2013. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, FL655.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2013423 | 13V605 |
| Dated | 27 November 2013 | 29 November 2013 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
The two registers are 2 days apart: the Canadian entry is dated first, the American one second.
These are the dates each register records against its own notice. They are separate administrative acts in two countries, recorded by two authorities under two sets of rules, and this page does not claim that one caused the other or that owners in either country were contacted on those days. What it shows is that the same manufacturer campaign reached the two registers on different dates.
Read the American notice 13V605, including every earlier version of its wording this site holds. The Canadian register explains why the manufacturer code is published there and what that makes possible. Canada and America sets every matched pair side by side.
Sterling BULLET in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Sterling BULLET is named on 5 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American 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
- 2013423
- Recall date
- 27 November 2013
- Make
- Sterling
- Models
- Bullet
- Model years
- 2008 to 2009
- Vehicle class
- Light Truck & Van
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 754
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the left outer tie rod ball stud could fracture, potentially resulting in a loss of vehicle control and a crash causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will install a redesigned left outer tie rod assembly. Note: This recall supersedes recall 2011-011 (FL-588). Vehicles that were repaired under the previous campaign will also need to be repaired under this campaign.
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 2013423.
Sterling elsewhere in this register
Sterling is named on 84 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2012414 · 10 December 2012 · 360 · Fuel System
- 2012281 · 15 August 2012 · 114sd, Coronado, 4700 · Brakes
- 2012080 · 27 February 2012 · 4900, 4700, Century · Fuel System
- 2015257 · 10 June 2015 · Bullet · Airbag
- 2011411 · 21 November 2011 · Columbia, Cascadia, Century · Other
- 2011345 · 19 September 2011 · A-Line, Business Class M2, Cascadia · Fuel System
- 2011346 · 19 September 2011 · Coronado, Cascadia, Century · Other
- 2011236 · 22 June 2011 · Columbia, A-Line, Century · Electrical
The same system: Steering
582 notices in this register name Steering. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2013410 · 19 November 2013 · Q50 · Steering
- 2013439 · 13 December 2013 · King Aire Diesel Pusher Motorhome, Essex Diesel Pusher Motorhome · Steering
- 2013319 · 20 September 2013 · Trx500fm - Foreman 500 · Steering
- 2013226 · 3 July 2013 · American Eagle · Steering
- 2013227 · 3 July 2013 · Yaris · Steering
- 2013139 · 26 April 2013 · H3-45 Coach, H3-41 Coach · Steering
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
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 Keystone Bullet, 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 Sterling: 84 in the register, and 466 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2013.
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