STRUCTURE:BODY:ROOF AND PILLARS
A school bus exterior roof panel with insufficient joint strength may separate during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
23 safety recall campaigns.
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 school bus exterior roof panel with insufficient joint strength may separate during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
Occupants may collide with the front seat barriers with more force than intended during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
Small lettering may be difficult for occupants to read, delaying the reaction time to open the exit, increasing the risk of injury.
In the event of a fire, if the fire extinguisher does not function properly, it can increase the risk of injury.
A seat lap belt anchored to the seat instead of the bus structure may not properly restrain the seat occupant in the event of a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
A seat lap belt anchored to the seat instead of the bus structure may not properly restrain the seat occupant in the event of a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
Two 2013 THOMAS BUILT BUSES SAF-T-LINER HDXs 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.