Blue Bird All American, model years 2008 to 2013. Filed by Blue Bird Body Company and reported to NHTSA on 11 June 2014. 1,935 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Blue Bird Body Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain model year 2008-2013 All American rear engine school buses manufactured April 3, 2007, to December 15, 2012. Due to the design of the thermostat, a heater hose may rupture which could result in hot coolant entering the passenger compartment.
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.
Blue Bird's own number for this recall: R14XF. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V313 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 14V313 cover?
- Blue Bird All American, model years 2008-2013.
- What is wrong with them?
- Blue Bird Body Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain model year 2008-2013 All American rear engine school buses manufactured April 3, 2007, to December 15, 2012. Due to the design of the thermostat, a heater hose may rupture which could result in hot coolant entering the passenger compartment.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Hot coolant leaking into the passenger compartment increases the risk of injury to the passengers.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Blue Bird will notify owners, and dealers will replace the thermostat and change the passenger compartment heater supply hose, free of charge. The recall began on July 15, 2014. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 1-478-822-2242. Blue Bird's number for this recall is R14XF.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Blue Bird calls this recall R14XF, 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: “Hot coolant leaking into the passenger compartment increases the risk of injury to the passengers.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V313 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Blue Bird Body Company |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Cooling System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 11 June 2014 |
| Model years | 2008-2013 |
| Vehicles named | BLUE BIRD ALL AMERICAN |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Hot coolant leaking into the passenger compartment increases the risk of injury to the passengers.
The remedy
Blue Bird will notify owners, and dealers will replace the thermostat and change the passenger compartment heater supply hose, free of charge. The recall began on July 15, 2014. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 1-478-822-2242. Blue Bird's number for this recall is R14XF.
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 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 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 14V313, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v313/
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 14V313 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
93460310 - Consequence
c47f892d - 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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