New Flyer C40lf, New Flyer C40lfr, New Flyer D35lfr, New Flyer D40lfr, New Flyer D60lfr, New Flyer Xd35, model years 2010 to 2012. Filed by New Flyer Industries Ltd. and reported to NHTSA on 25 October 2012. 1,041 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says New Flyer is recalling certain model year 2010-2012 transit buses, models C40LF, C40LFR, D35LFR, D40LFR, D60LFR, XD35, XD40, XDE35, XDE40, and XN40. Air pressure may leak from the parking brake chambers causing the parking brakes to drag while the vehicle is driven.
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.
New Flyer's own number for this recall: R12-031. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 12V518 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 12V518 cover?
- New Flyer C40Lf, New Flyer C40Lfr, New Flyer D35Lfr, New Flyer D40Lfr, New Flyer D60Lfr, New Flyer XD35, New Flyer XD40, New Flyer Xde35, model years 2010-2012.
- What is wrong with them?
- New Flyer is recalling certain model year 2010-2012 transit buses, models C40LF, C40LFR, D35LFR, D40LFR, D60LFR, XD35, XD40, XDE35, XDE40, and XN40. Air pressure may leak from the parking brake chambers causing the parking brakes to drag while the vehicle is driven.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the brakes drag, they may overheat, possibly resulting in a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. New Flyer will notify the owners and the affected brake chambers will be replaced, free of charge. The recall began on November 13, 2012. Owners may contact New Flyer at 1-204-224-6706 for more information.
- 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 R12-031, 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 brakes drag, they may overheat, possibly resulting in a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 12V518 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | New Flyer Industries Ltd. |
| System at fault | Parking Brake |
| Reported to NHTSA | 25 October 2012 |
| Model years | 2010-2012 |
| Vehicles named | NEW FLYER C40LF, NEW FLYER C40LFR, NEW FLYER D35LFR, NEW FLYER D40LFR, NEW FLYER D60LFR, NEW FLYER XD35, NEW FLYER XD40, NEW FLYER XDE35, NEW FLYER XDE40, NEW FLYER XN40 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the brakes drag, they may overheat, possibly resulting in a fire.
The remedy
New Flyer will notify the owners and the affected brake chambers will be replaced, free of charge. The recall began on November 13, 2012. Owners may contact New Flyer at 1-204-224-6706 for more information.
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 175 notices in the record whose component field names parking brake. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 49 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- New Flyer C40lf recalls: 4 US campaigns
- New Flyer C40lfr recalls: 7 US campaigns
- New Flyer D35lfr recalls: 4 US campaigns
- New Flyer D40lfr recalls: 4 US campaigns
- New Flyer D60lfr recalls: 3 US campaigns
- New Flyer XD35 recalls: 18 US campaigns
- New Flyer XD40 recalls: 23 US campaigns
- New Flyer Xde35 recalls: 17 US campaigns
- New Flyer Xde40 recalls: 23 US campaigns
- New Flyer XN40 recalls: 22 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 12V518, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/12v518/
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
- 26V279: 2022 XE40 transit buses
- 26V151: 2021-2025 XE35, 2021-2026 XE40, 2023-2025 XE60, 2023-2026 XHE40, and 2024-2026 XHE60 transit buses equipped with Accelera ELFA 3 control systems V1 and V2
- 25V898: XD35, XDE35, XE35, XN35, XD40, XDE40, XE40, XHE40, XN40, XT40, XD60, XDE60, XE60, XN60, XT60, and XHE60 transit buses
- 25V631: 2019 XE35, 2021-2025 XE35, XE40, and XE60 transit buses
- 25V566: 2013, 2017-2025 XE40, 2019-2025 XE60, XE35, 2023-2025 XHE40, and 2024-2025 XHE60 buses
- 25V542: 2012-2025 Xcelsior buses
- 25V053: 2023-2024 XDE60, 2024 XD35, XD40, and XD60 transit buses equipped with Cummins L9 diesel engines
- 24V425: 2023 XD35, XD40, and XD60
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 12V518 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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402347c6 - 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.
The wording we hold for 12V518 · how the whole register is watched
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