Freightliner Business Class M2. Published by Transport Canada as 2014483 on 29 October 2014. System: Brakes.
What the notice says On certain vehicles equipped with an Auto-park brake feature, the parking brake may apply unintentionally when the vehicle experiences a severe road vibration, such as travelling over a highway rumble strip at highways speeds. This severe vibration may cause air to pass through the solenoid valve, resulting in …
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Transport Canada carries this recall as 2014483, dated 29 October 2014. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 14V681, dated 29 October 2014. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, FL672.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2014483 | 14V681 |
| Dated | 29 October 2014 | 29 October 2014 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
Both registers carry the same date for this defect.
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 14V681, 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.
Freightliner BUSINESS CLASS M2 in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Freightliner BUSINESS CLASS M2 is named on 30 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
- 2014483
- Recall date
- 29 October 2014
- Make
- Freightliner
- Models
- Business Class M2
- Model years
- 2013 to 2015
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Brakes
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 218
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles equipped with an Auto-park brake feature, the parking brake may apply unintentionally when the vehicle experiences a severe road vibration, such as travelling over a highway rumble strip at highways speeds. This severe vibration may cause air to pass through the solenoid valve, resulting in increased air pressure to the control port and potentially causing the dash-mounted park brake valve to pop out, causing an unintended park brake application without brake light illumination. This could increase the risk of a crash causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: Dealers will replace the auto-park solenoid valve and its mounting bracket.
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 2014483.
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.
- 2014471 · 22 October 2014 · Business Class M2 · Powertrain
- 2014507 · 6 November 2014 · 122sd · Brakes
- 2014424 · 30 September 2014 · Cascadia · Electrical
- 2014547 · 3 December 2014 · Business Class M2 · Fuel System
- 2014548 · 3 December 2014 · 4700, 122sd, 114sd · Brakes
- 2014050 · 21 February 2014 · Business Class M2, 114sd · Engine
- 2015068 · 16 February 2015 · Business Class M2 · Brakes
- 2015113 · 16 March 2015 · Cascadia · Lights And Instruments
The same system: Brakes
791 notices in this register name Brakes. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2014467 · 22 October 2014 · Bounder, Storm, Bounder Classic · Brakes
- 2014507 · 6 November 2014 · 122sd · Brakes
- 2014508 · 6 November 2014 · 220, K270, K370 · Brakes
- 2014521 · 18 November 2014 · Reach Van · Brakes
- 2014532 · 25 November 2014 · Metro Star, Gladiator · Brakes
- 2014533 · 25 November 2014 · Tri Glide Ultra (flhtcutg) · Brakes
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 Freightliner Business Class M2, 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 Freightliner: 376 in the register, and 591 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2014.
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