Autocar Xspotter. Published by Transport Canada as 2016401 on 11 August 2016. System: Steering.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the steering column could break due to a defective weld. If this occurs, the steering wheel could separate from the rest of the steering system, resulting in the loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: Dealers will inspect and …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Transport Canada carries this recall as 2016401, dated 11 August 2016. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 16V599, dated 15 August 2016. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, ACTT1601.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2016401 | 16V599 |
| Dated | 11 August 2016 | 15 August 2016 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
The two registers are 4 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 16V599, 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.
Autocar XSPOTTER in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Autocar XSPOTTER is named on 19 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
- 2016401
- Recall date
- 11 August 2016
- Make
- Autocar
- Models
- Xspotter
- Model years
- 2016 to 2017
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 17
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the steering column could break due to a defective weld. If this occurs, the steering wheel could separate from the rest of the steering system, resulting in the loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: Dealers will inspect and replace the steering column as necessary.
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 2016401.
Autocar elsewhere in this register
Autocar is named on 62 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2016497 · 11 October 2016 · Acx Xpeditor · Steering
- 2016504 · 13 October 2016 · Xspotter, Xpert · Steering
- 2016235 · 17 May 2016 · Xpert · Steering
- 2016600 · 1 December 2016 · Acx Xpeditor · Electrical
- 2016030 · 22 January 2016 · Acx Xpeditor · Brakes
- 2015472 · 15 October 2015 · Xpeditor · Brakes
- 2017438 · 8 September 2017 · Xpert · Steering
- 2015309 · 14 July 2015 · Xpeditor · Heater And Defroster
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.
- 2016313 · 20 June 2016 · Dynasty, American Revolution, American Tradition · Steering
- 2016301 · 14 June 2016 · C Class · Steering
- 2016304 · 14 June 2016 · Essex Class A Motorhome, Mountain Aire Class A Motorhome, London Aire Class A Motorhome · Steering
- 2016305 · 14 June 2016 · Allegro Bus · Steering
- 2016497 · 11 October 2016 · Acx Xpeditor · Steering
- 2016494 · 11 October 2016 · VHD · 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 Autocar Xspotter, 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 Autocar: 62 in the register, and 644 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2016.
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