Recall · 20V235000
Blue Bird Body recalled the BLUE BIRD Vision over parking brake
3
Vehicles covered
1
Model
11
Model years
April 27, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
PARKING BRAKE
- The defect
- Blue Bird Body Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain 2009-2019 Vision transit buses. The floor-mounted parking brake may fail to hold the vehicle stationary on an incline when the vehicle is loaded to its maximum weight, due to an insufficient application force. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 105 "Hydraulic and Electric Brake Systems."
- What it can cause
- A parking brake system that is set to an insufficient application force may result in an increased possibility of unintended vehicle movement, which increases the risk of injury to bystanders.
- What the dealer does
- Blue Bird will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the floor mounted park brake application force hand lever assembly and adjust the application force, as necessary, free of charge. The recall is expected to begin June 24, 2020. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 478-822-2242. Blue Bird's number for this recall is R20AO-SB.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| Blue BirdVision | 2009 to 2019 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 3 vehicles this is a small campaign: 97% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2009 to 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 11 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Blue Bird vehicles have been recalled over the parking brake 8 times before this, most recently in December 2018 as 18V881000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 1 of the 11 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 6 complaints with NHTSA, 6 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2009, 11 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 19 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V758000 (equipment), 24V600000 (fuel system, gasoline), 24V599000 (fuel system, gasoline), 24V543000 (structure).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Blue Bird Body Company with NHTSA on April 27, 2020 as campaign 20V235000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2020-04-27.
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