Thomas Built Buses Minotour, model year 2015. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America LLC and reported to NHTSA on 23 September 2014. 4 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain model year 2015 Minotour school buses manufactured August 1, 2013, to June 4, 2014. In the affected vehicles, if the hazard and brake lights are used simultaneously, the circuit may be overloaded and cause the fuse to blow.
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.
Thomas Built Buses's own number for this recall: FL-666. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V590 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 14V590 cover?
- Thomas Built Buses Minotour, model year 2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain model year 2015 Minotour school buses manufactured August 1, 2013, to June 4, 2014. In the affected vehicles, if the hazard and brake lights are used simultaneously, the circuit may be overloaded and cause the fuse to blow.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the fuse blows, the hazard lights and brake lights will cease to function, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. DTNA has notified owners, and dealers have replaced the fuses with fuses of a higher amperage, free of charge. The recall began in November 2014. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-745-8000. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-666.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Thomas Built Buses calls this recall FL-666, 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 fuse blows, the hazard lights and brake lights will cease to function, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V590 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Trucks North America LLC |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Wiring:Fuses And Circuit Breakers |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 September 2014 |
| Model years | 2015-2015 |
| Vehicles named | THOMAS BUILT BUSES MINOTOUR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the fuse blows, the hazard lights and brake lights will cease to function, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
DTNA has notified owners, and dealers have replaced the fuses with fuses of a higher amperage, free of charge. The recall began in November 2014. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-745-8000. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-666.
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 14V590, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v590/
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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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 14V590 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
519e1455 - Consequence
323b5248 - 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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