Coach & Equipment Metro-Lite, Coach & Equipment Phoenix, model years 2009 to 2010. Filed by Coach and Equipment Mfg Corp. and reported to NHTSA on 20 September 2013. 53 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Coach and Equipment Manufacturing Corp. (Coach and Equipment) is recalling certain model year 2009-2010 MetroLite and Phoenix transit buses manufactured August 2009 through May 2010 and equipped with an optional power door. The power actuator behind the door contains a PC Board that may overheat.
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 13V460 cover?
- Coach & Equipment Metro-Lite, Coach & Equipment Phoenix, model years 2009-2010.
- What is wrong with them?
- Coach and Equipment Manufacturing Corp. (Coach and Equipment) is recalling certain model year 2009-2010 MetroLite and Phoenix transit buses manufactured August 2009 through May 2010 and equipped with an optional power door. The power actuator behind the door contains a PC Board that may overheat.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Overheating of the PC board may result in a vehicle fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Coach and Equipment will notify owners, and service centers will inspect and replace any defective circuit board, free of charge. The recall began on September 17, 2013. Owners may contact Coach and Equipment at 1-315-536-2321.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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: “Overheating of the PC board may result in a vehicle fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 13V460 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Coach and Equipment MFG Corp. |
| System at fault | Electrical System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 September 2013 |
| Model years | 2009-2010 |
| Vehicles named | COACH & EQUIPMENT METRO-LITE, COACH & EQUIPMENT PHOENIX |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Overheating of the PC board may result in a vehicle fire.
The remedy
Coach and Equipment will notify owners, and service centers will inspect and replace any defective circuit board, free of charge. The recall began on September 17, 2013. Owners may contact Coach and Equipment at 1-315-536-2321.
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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 13V460, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13v460/
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.
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Other Coach And Equipment notices we hold
- 26V472: 2024-2025 Phoenix, and 2025-2026 Metrolite transit buses, equipped with certain S-Series wheelchair platform lifts
- 26V333: 2025-2026 Phoenix and 2026 Metrolite buses, equipped with certain QRT-360 wheelchair retractors
- 25V895: 2024-2025 Phoenix transit buses equipped with a propane conversion kit with an aftermarket compressor
- 25V772: 2025 Phoenix transit buses equipped with QRT-Deluxe and QRT-Max wheelchair restraints
- 24V317: 2024 Phoenix shuttle buses, equipped with certain GO-ES Space Saver Foldaway Seats
- 22V851: 2016-2023 Phoenix transit buses equipped with Roush fuel return lines included in GEN 4 and GEN 5 LPG Conversion Systems that were installed on
- 18V796: 2015-2018 Coach and Equipment Phoenix and Metro lite transit buses, equipped with Freedman GO-ES Foldaway Seats, part numbers 43705, 45467, 48923, and 75719
- 12V281: MODEL YEAR 2006-2010 PHOENIX, METRO-LITE AND PEGASUS TRANSIT BUSES EQUIPPED WITH BRAUN CENTURY-2 AND/OR VISTA-2 WHEELCHAIR LIFTS
All 11 Coach And Equipment 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 13V460 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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cde1a9d3 - 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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