Arboc Spirit Of Freedom, Spirit Of Independence. Published by Transport Canada as 2026264 on 29 May 2026. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain buses, the wheelchair tie-down retractors may not have been manufactured properly. As a result, the retractor(s) may not lock automatically. If this happens, the wheelchair may not be secured correctly and could move in a crash.
UPDATE - After ARBOC notified Transport Canada about this problem, …
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Arboc SPIRIT OF FREEDOM in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Arboc SPIRIT OF FREEDOM is named on 8 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
- 2026264
- Recall date
- 29 May 2026
- Make
- Arboc
- Models
- Spirit Of Freedom, Spirit Of Independence
- Model years
- 2026
- Vehicle class
- Bus
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain buses, the wheelchair tie-down retractors may not have been manufactured properly. As a result, the retractor(s) may not lock automatically. If this happens, the wheelchair may not be secured correctly and could move in a crash.
UPDATE - After ARBOC notified Transport Canada about this problem, they determined that there are no Canadian vehicles affected by it. Accordingly, this safety recall was withdrawn.Safety Risk:
There is no safety risk, as there are no Canadian vehicles affected by this problem.Corrective Actions:
This is not a recall. This notice was published for information only.
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 2026264.
Arboc elsewhere in this register
Arboc is named on 12 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2026363 · 24 July 2026 · Spirit Of Independence · Suspension
- 2026109 · 11 March 2026 · Spirit Of Freedom, Spirit Of Mobility · Brakes
- 2025684 · 11 December 2025 · Spirit Of Freedom, Spirit Of Independence · Seats And Restraints
- 2025397 · 30 July 2025 · Spirit Of Freedom, G5 Commercial Bus · Suspension
- 2019644 · 18 December 2019 · Spirit Of Freedom · Structure
- 2018639 · 20 November 2018 · Spirit Of Freedom, Spirit Of Mobility, Spirit Of Independence · Seats And Restraints
- 2014571 · 17 December 2014 · Spirit Of Freedom, Spirit Of Mobility · Lights And Instruments
- 2014556 · 9 December 2014 · Spirit Of Mobility · Visual System
The same system: Seats And Restraints
900 notices in this register name Seats And Restraints. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2026257 · 27 May 2026 · Expedition, Navigator · Seats And Restraints
- 2026251 · 21 May 2026 · Civic, MDX, Cr-V · Seats And Restraints
- 2026240 · 20 May 2026 · Vision School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2026227 · 12 May 2026 · Range Rover Velar, Range Rover · Seats And Restraints
- 2026219 · 1 May 2026 · Cla Class · Seats And Restraints
- 2026302 · 18 June 2026 · Vistiq · Seats And Restraints
Reading this against the source
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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 Arboc Spirit Of Independence, 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 Arboc: 12 in the register, and 405 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2026.
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