Blue Bird All American School Bus. Published by Transport Canada as 2025005 on 8 January 2025. System: Lights And Instruments.
What the notice says Issue:
On one school bus built with a rear engine, the wiring for the high and low beam headlamps may be reversed. As a result, the high beams may not be bright enough and the low beams may be too bright. Additionally, the high beam indicator light may not turn on when the high beams are turned on. Canadian …
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Transport Canada carries this recall as 2025005, dated 8 January 2025. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 25V004, dated 8 January 2025. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, R25DH.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2025005 | 25V004 |
| Dated | 8 January 2025 | 8 January 2025 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
| Make | Blue Bird | |
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 25V004, 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.
Blue Bird ALL AMERICAN SCHOOL BUS in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Blue Bird ALL AMERICAN SCHOOL BUS is named on 31 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
- 2025005
- Recall date
- 8 January 2025
- Make
- Blue Bird
- Models
- All American School Bus
- Model years
- 2025
- Vehicle class
- School Bus
- System
- Lights And Instruments
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On one school bus built with a rear engine, the wiring for the high and low beam headlamps may be reversed. As a result, the high beams may not be bright enough and the low beams may be too bright. Additionally, the high beam indicator light may not turn on when the high beams are turned on. Canadian regulations specify a minimum and maximum brightness for high and low beams, and that an indicator light turns on when the high beams are activated.Safety Risk:
High or low beam headlamps that don't work correctly could cause reduced visibility and/or glare for oncoming drivers and increase the risk of a crash.Corrective Action:
Blue Bird will notify the owner by mail and provide them with instructions and a repair kit to replace the jumper harness wiring. Alternatively, you may schedule an appointment to have the repairs performed at a Blue Bird dealership.
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 2025005.
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.
- 2025127 · 13 March 2025 · Vision School Bus · High Voltage
- 2025209 · 17 April 2025 · Vision School Bus · Brakes
- 2025240 · 5 May 2025 · Vision School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2025501 · 23 September 2025 · Vision School Bus · Brakes
- 2025681 · 11 December 2025 · Vision School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2025709 · 19 December 2025 · All American School Bus, Vision School Bus · Electrical
- 2025710 · 19 December 2025 · Vision Transit Bus, All American Non-School Bus · Electrical
- 2024466 · 13 August 2024 · Vision School Bus · Fuel System
The same system: Lights And Instruments
900 notices in this register name Lights And Instruments. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2025011 · 14 January 2025 · Sorento · Lights And Instruments
- 2025036 · 29 January 2025 · 548, T380, T280 · Lights And Instruments
- 2025056 · 7 February 2025 · Ex90 · Lights And Instruments
- 2025068 · 12 February 2025 · 911 Carrera · Lights And Instruments
- 2025073 · 13 February 2025 · R1t, R1s · Lights And Instruments
- 2025086 · 14 February 2025 · Maverick · Lights And Instruments
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 Blue Bird All American 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 656 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2025.
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