Blue Bird Vision School Bus, Tx4 School Bus. Published by Transport Canada as 2023342 on 13 June 2023. System: Brakes.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain school buses equipped with air brakes, the air pressure gauges and low pressure warnings may not work. As a result, a driver may not get a warning if there is a loss of brake air pressure.
Safety Risk:
A driver who is unaware of low air pressure in the brake system could have an increased …
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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
- 2023342
- Recall date
- 13 June 2023
- Make
- Blue Bird
- Models
- Vision School Bus, TX4 School Bus
- Model years
- 2023 to 2024
- Vehicle class
- School Bus
- System
- Brakes
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 157
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain school buses equipped with air brakes, the air pressure gauges and low pressure warnings may not work. As a result, a driver may not get a warning if there is a loss of brake air pressure.Safety Risk:
A driver who is unaware of low air pressure in the brake system could have an increased risk of a crash.Corrective Actions:
Blue Bird will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your bus to a dealership to update the instrument cluster software.
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 2023342.
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.
- 2023231 · 18 April 2023 · Vision School Bus · Powertrain
- 2023619 · 21 November 2023 · All American School Bus · Structure
- 2024067 · 2 February 2024 · Vision School Bus · Lights And Instruments
- 2024070 · 7 February 2024 · Vision School Bus, TX4 School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2022579 · 12 October 2022 · Vision Non-School Bus · Structure
- 2024102 · 16 February 2024 · Vision School Bus · Brakes
- 2022566 · 6 October 2022 · Vision School Bus · Fuel System
- 2022567 · 6 October 2022 · Vision Non-School Bus · Fuel System
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.
- 2023321 · 2 June 2023 · Durastar, MV, Ce Commercial Bus · Brakes
- 2023322 · 2 June 2023 · Ce School Bus · Brakes
- 2023323 · 2 June 2023 · TÉNÉRÉ 700 · Brakes
- 2023318 · 1 June 2023 · Odyssey, Greyhawk Motorhome, Redhawk Motorhome · Brakes
- 2023312 · 30 May 2023 · Giulia, Stelvio · Brakes
- 2023405 · 25 July 2023 · F-150 · Brakes
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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 593 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2023.
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