Skip to the page
CARSMULTIVERSESee what changed

New Flyer recall 10V605 (R10-028): Model Year 2008-2009 Heavy Duty Transit Buses

A driver holding a steering wheel, where the front airbag sits
Illustrative photo, not the recalled vehicle. Photo: Per Lööv / Unsplash
ShareWhatsAppFacebookXEmail

New Flyer D40lf, New Flyer De60lf, New Flyer E40lfr, model years 2008 to 2009. Filed by New Flyer Industries Ltd and reported to NHTSA on 29 November 2010. 522 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says New flyer is recalling certain model year 2008-2009 heavy duty transit buses. the radius rod bracket which attaches the front axle radius rods to the vehicle frame may be missing two of the four required welds.

Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.

CarsMultiverse/Recalls

New Flyer's own number for this recall: R10-028. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 10V605 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.

What owners ask about this recall

Which vehicles does recall 10V605 cover?
New Flyer D40Lf, New Flyer De60Lf, New Flyer E40Lfr, model years 2008-2009.
What is wrong with them?
NEW FLYER IS RECALLING CERTAIN MODEL YEAR 2008-2009 HEAVY DUTY TRANSIT BUSES. THE RADIUS ROD BRACKET WHICH ATTACHES THE FRONT AXLE RADIUS RODS TO THE VEHICLE FRAME MAY BE MISSING TWO OF THE FOUR REQUIRED WELDS.
What can happen if it is not put right?
FAILURE OF A RADIUS ROD BRACKET ASSEMBLY MAY RESULT IN RESTRICTED STEERING CAPABILITY INCREASING THE RISK OF VEHICLE CRASH, INJURY OR DEATH.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. DEALERS WILL INSPECT FOR RADIUS ROD BRACKETS AND WILL BE REPLACED WITH CERTIFIED PRODUCT FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON DECEMBER 13, 2010. OWNERS MAY CONTACT NEW FLYER AT 1-204-934-4876.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. New Flyer calls this recall R10-028, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.

Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.

What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “FAILURE OF A RADIUS ROD BRACKET ASSEMBLY MAY RESULT IN RESTRICTED STEERING CAPABILITY INCREASING THE RISK OF VEHICLE CRASH, INJURY OR DEATH.”

522vehicles potentially
affected
3models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 29 November 2010owners told 13 December 2011today
The defect reached the regulator on 29 November 2010. Owners were written to 379 days later, on 13 December 2011. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign is in the slowest tenth of the register.
Campaign10V605
Filed byNEW FLYER INDUSTRIES LTD
System at faultPower Train:Axle Assembly
Reported to NHTSA29 November 2010
Model years2008-2009
Vehicles namedNEW FLYER D40LF, NEW FLYER DE60LF, NEW FLYER E40LFR

What the notice says today

The consequence

FAILURE OF A RADIUS ROD BRACKET ASSEMBLY MAY RESULT IN RESTRICTED STEERING CAPABILITY INCREASING THE RISK OF VEHICLE CRASH, INJURY OR DEATH.

The remedy

DEALERS WILL INSPECT FOR RADIUS ROD BRACKETS AND WILL BE REPLACED WITH CERTIFIED PRODUCT FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON DECEMBER 13, 2010. OWNERS MAY CONTACT NEW FLYER AT 1-204-934-4876.

What it said before

This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.

This is one of 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

How to cite this record

Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:

CarsMultiverse, recall 10V605, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/10v605/

The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.

The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.

Other New Flyer notices we hold

All 43 New Flyer campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record

The fingerprint of this notice

We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 10V605 on 17 September 2026, they were:

We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.

The wording we hold for 10V605 · how the whole register is watched

Put this notice on your site

A small badge that links here and names the register's reference. It costs one line of HTML and needs no key.

NHTSA 10V605, New Flyer D40Lf and 2 more, every version kept at CarsMultiverse

The badge is free to use. It links to this page and nowhere else, and it never shows advertising.

Cite, embed or query this notice

Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.

Embed

<a href="https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/10v605/"><img src="https://carsmultiverse.com/badge/recall/10v605/" alt="Recall record on CarsMultiverse" width="360" height="64"></a>

Data: JSON · API · for AI tools · MCP server https://carsmultiverse.com/mcp