New Flyer Xd35, New Flyer Xd40, New Flyer Xd60, New Flyer Xde40, New Flyer Xde60, New Flyer Xn40, model years 2012 to 2013. Filed by New Flyer Industries Ltd. and reported to NHTSA on 28 May 2013. 188 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says New Flyer Industries is recalling certain model year 2012 XD35 and XD40, model year 2013 XD60, XDE40 and XDE60 and model year 2012-2013 XN40 and XN60 transit buses. In the affected buses, the push-to-start button switch may have a weak return spring, allowing the engine to start unexpectedly.
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: R13-014. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 13V221 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 13V221 cover?
- New Flyer XD35, New Flyer XD40, New Flyer XD60, New Flyer Xde40, New Flyer Xde60, New Flyer XN40, New Flyer XN60, model years 2012-2013.
- What is wrong with them?
- New Flyer Industries is recalling certain model year 2012 XD35 and XD40, model year 2013 XD60, XDE40 and XDE60 and model year 2012-2013 XN40 and XN60 transit buses. In the affected buses, the push-to-start button switch may have a weak return spring, allowing the engine to start unexpectedly.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the engine starts without warning, there is an increased risk for injury to persons working on or near the engine.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. New Flyer will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and replace the switches free of charge. The recall began June 19, 2013. Owners may contact New Flyer customer service at 1-204-224-6706. New Flyer's recall number is R13-014.
- 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 R13-014, 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 engine starts without warning, there is an increased risk for injury to persons working on or near the engine.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 13V221 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | New Flyer Industries Ltd. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Ignition:Switch |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 May 2013 |
| Model years | 2012-2013 |
| Vehicles named | NEW FLYER XD35, NEW FLYER XD40, NEW FLYER XD60, NEW FLYER XDE40, NEW FLYER XDE60, NEW FLYER XN40, NEW FLYER XN60 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the engine starts without warning, there is an increased risk for injury to persons working on or near the engine.
The remedy
New Flyer will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and replace the switches free of charge. The recall began June 19, 2013. Owners may contact New Flyer customer service at 1-204-224-6706. New Flyer's recall number is R13-014.
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
- New Flyer XD35 recalls: 18 US campaigns
- New Flyer XD40 recalls: 23 US campaigns
- New Flyer XD60 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- New Flyer Xde40 recalls: 23 US campaigns
- New Flyer Xde60 recalls: 18 US campaigns
- New Flyer XN40 recalls: 22 US campaigns
- New Flyer XN60 recalls: 15 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 13V221, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13v221/
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.
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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 13V221 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f6bac8a0 - Consequence
28981795 - 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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