EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY
When the vehicle is in neutral with the ignition and the parking brake off, the vehicle may move. Using the wheelchair lift during this time can increase the risk of injury.
15 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations.
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.
When the vehicle is in neutral with the ignition and the parking brake off, the vehicle may move. Using the wheelchair lift during this time can increase the risk of injury.
If the vehicle can be moved while the wheelchair lift is being used, there is an increased the risk of injury.
If the wheelchair lift can be operated when the vehicle is not in Park, there is increased risk of injury to the lift user.
If the wheelchair lift can be operated when the vehicle is not in Park, there is increased risk of injury to the lift user.
In the event of a fire, if the fire extinguisher does not function properly, it can increase the risk of injury.
If the bearings move out of position, the stowed platform may have excessive movement resulting in failure of the platform mounting. This failure could cause the wheel chair lift platform to fall out of the vehicle when the doors are opened, increasing the risk of injury for the lift operator.
Two 2007 THOMAS BUILT BUSES MINOTOURs 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.