Van Hool C2045, Van Hool T2140, Van Hool T2145, model years 2011 to 2012. Filed by Van Hool N.v. and reported to NHTSA on 12 October 2012. 138 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Van Hool is recalling certain model year 2011 and 2012 C2045, and model year 2011 T2140 and T2145 motorcoaches manufactured from September 2010 through September 2011, equipped with a Daimler DD13 engine without ground cables installed on the Prestolite AC172 alternators. Internal corrosion may cause the alternator …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: P701. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 12V495 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 12V495 cover?
- Van Hool C2045, Van Hool T2140, Van Hool T2145, model years 2011-2012.
- What is wrong with them?
- Van Hool is recalling certain model year 2011 and 2012 C2045, and model year 2011 T2140 and T2145 motorcoaches manufactured from September 2010 through September 2011, equipped with a Daimler DD13 engine without ground cables installed on the Prestolite AC172 alternators.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the alternator overheats, the components may melt, possibly resulting in smoke and creating the potential risk of a vehicle fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Van Hool through their US agent, ABC Bus, Inc., will notify owners, and dealers will add external ground cables to the alternators, free of charge. The safety recall began on December 5, 2012. Owners may contact the warranty administrator for ABC Bus, Inc. toll free at 1-877-427-7278.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall P701, 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: “If the alternator overheats, the components may melt, possibly resulting in smoke and creating the potential risk of a vehicle fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 12V495 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | VAN HOOL N.V. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Alternator/Generator/Regulator |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 October 2012 |
| Model years | 2011-2012 |
| Vehicles named | VAN HOOL C2045, VAN HOOL T2140, VAN HOOL T2145 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the alternator overheats, the components may melt, possibly resulting in smoke and creating the potential risk of a vehicle fire.
The remedy
Van Hool through their US agent, ABC Bus, Inc., will notify owners, and dealers will add external ground cables to the alternators, free of charge. The safety recall began on December 5, 2012. Owners may contact the warranty administrator for ABC Bus, Inc. toll free at 1-877-427-7278.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Van Hool C2045 recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Van Hool T2140 recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Van Hool T2145 recalls: 9 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 12V495, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/12v495/
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.
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 12V495 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6202586a - Consequence
3fa62793 - Remedy
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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.
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