Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2, model year 2017. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America LLC and reported to NHTSA on 13 September 2016. 114 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain model year 2017 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2 school buses manufactured April 30, 2016, to July 29, 2016 and equipped with a compressed natural gas (CNG) engine. During a fast fuel fill, an internal seal on a filling valve may dislodge allowing fuel to …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: FL-720. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V657 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 16V657 cover?
- Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2, model year 2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain model year 2017 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2 school buses manufactured April 30, 2016, to July 29, 2016 and equipped with a compressed natural gas (CNG) engine.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source may increase the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- DTNA has notified all affected owners and all of the vehicles have been remedied, therefore owner notification notices will not be issued for this campaign. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-720.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall FL-720, 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: “A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source may increase the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V657 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Trucks North America LLC |
| System at fault | Fuel System, Other:Storage:Tank Assembly:Filling/Charging |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 September 2016 |
| Model years | 2017-2017 |
| Vehicles named | THOMAS BUILT BUSES SAF-T-LINER C2 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source may increase the risk of a fire.
The remedy
DTNA has notified all affected owners and all of the vehicles have been remedied, therefore owner notification notices will not be issued for this campaign. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-720.
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 145 notices in the record whose component field names fuel system, other. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 35 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 16V657, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v657/
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.
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 16V657 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
1a4032df - Consequence
87ce6078 - 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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