Mci J4500, J3500. Published by Transport Canada as 2020179 on 27 April 2020. System: Brakes.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain buses, the brake hoses may be routed incorrectly and could become damaged or fail. If this happens, air could leak from the hose and cause a delay in the front brakes activating. This would reduce braking performance.
Safety Risk:
Reduced brake performance can cause extended stopping …
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Mci J4500 in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Mci J4500 is named on 27 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2020179
- Recall date
- 27 April 2020
- Make
- Mci
- Models
- J4500, J3500
- Model years
- 2014 to 2019
- Vehicle class
- Bus
- System
- Brakes
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 259
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain buses, the brake hoses may be routed incorrectly and could become damaged or fail. If this happens, air could leak from the hose and cause a delay in the front brakes activating. This would reduce braking performance.Safety Risk:
Reduced brake performance can cause extended stopping distances and increase the risk of a crash.Corrective Actions:
Motor Coach Industries (MCI) will notify owners by mail and instruct you to inspect the brake hoses. MCI will supply replacement parts and advise owners to replace any hoses that are leaking or damaged.
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 2020179.
Mci elsewhere in this register
Mci is named on 82 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2020276 · 17 June 2020 · D4500, J4500, D4005 · Electrical
- 2020501 · 21 October 2020 · J4500 · Engine
- 2021058 · 11 February 2021 · J4500, D45 CRT Le · Electrical
- 2021297 · 18 May 2021 · J4500, D45 CRT Le, J3500 · Fuel System
- 2019049 · 5 February 2019 · J4500 · Structure
- 2019006 · 8 January 2019 · 102el3, E4500, J4500 · Steering
- 2021588 · 24 September 2021 · J4500 · Other
- 2021595 · 24 September 2021 · J4500, D4505, J3500 · Electrical
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.
- 2020200 · 8 May 2020 · Vision Non-School Bus · Brakes
- 2020218 · 20 May 2020 · CV · Brakes
- 2020134 · 31 March 2020 · Sprinter · Brakes
- 2020133 · 30 March 2020 · Spyder RT · Brakes
- 2020120 · 20 March 2020 · R Nine T, R1250 GS, R1250 RS · Brakes
- 2020108 · 19 March 2020 · HX, LT · Brakes
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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 Mci J3500, 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 Mci: 82 in the register, and 536 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2020.
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