Blue Bird Vision School Bus. Published by Transport Canada as 2018616 on 7 November 2018. System: Electrical.
What the notice says On certain school buses, the alternator cables may contact and chafe against the air conditioning support bracket or vehicle structure. This could damage the wires and cause an electrical short, potentially causing the engine to stall without the ability to restart and could increase the risk of a fire causing injury …
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Blue Bird VISION SCHOOL BUS in the other registers
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The American register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2018616
- Recall date
- 7 November 2018
- Make
- Blue Bird
- Models
- Vision School Bus
- Model years
- 2017 to 2019
- Vehicle class
- School Bus
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1,010
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain school buses, the alternator cables may contact and chafe against the air conditioning support bracket or vehicle structure. This could damage the wires and cause an electrical short, potentially causing the engine to stall without the ability to restart and could increase the risk of a fire causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: Dealers will inspect and re-position the alternator cables as necessary to ensure proper clearance.
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 2018616.
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.
- 2018617 · 7 November 2018 · Vision Non-School Bus · Electrical
- 2018695 · 12 December 2018 · All American School Bus, Vision School Bus · Brakes
- 2018697 · 12 December 2018 · Vision School Bus · Brakes
- 2018698 · 12 December 2018 · Vision Non-School Bus · Brakes
- 2018453 · 28 August 2018 · Vision School Bus · Label
- 2018213 · 27 April 2018 · Vision School Bus · Powertrain
- 2018209 · 26 April 2018 · All American School Bus, Vision School Bus · Brakes
- 2018210 · 26 April 2018 · All American Non-School Bus, Vision Non-School Bus · Brakes
The same system: Electrical
686 notices in this register name Electrical. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2018617 · 7 November 2018 · Vision Non-School Bus · Electrical
- 2018620 · 9 November 2018 · B Touring Cruiser, Conquest · Electrical
- 2018703 · 13 December 2018 · Via, Travato, Navion · Electrical
- 2018709 · 18 December 2018 · Serenity · Electrical
- 2018718 · 20 December 2018 · F-150, F-450 Super Duty, F-350 Super Duty · Electrical
- 2018501 · 13 September 2018 · Crf250l · Electrical
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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 Vision 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 704 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2018.
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