STEERING:COLUMN
A loss of steering control increases the risk of a crash.
8 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 1 defect investigation.
1 campaign covering the 2023 PREVOST H3-45 carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
A loss of steering control increases the risk of a crash.
An unstable wheelchair increases the risk of injury to lift occupants.
Beacons that do not provide proper illumination may be less visible to wheelchair lift users, increasing the risk of injury.
An inoperative front turn signal may not notify other drivers of a turning vehicle, while inoperative hazard warning lights reduce the vehicle visibility to other drivers, both increasing the risk of a crash.
An emergency exit that requires excessive force to open may prevent or delay use of the exit, increasing the risk of injury in the event of an emergency.
Hazard lights that do not flash simultaneously may confuse other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.
Two 2023 PREVOST H3-45s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.