Recall · 20V690000
Daimler Trucks North America recalled the THOMAS BUILT BUSES Minotour over equipment adaptive/mobility
615
Vehicles covered
1
Model
14
Model years
November 9, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY
- The defect
- Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2008-2021 Thomas Built Buses Minotour school buses. The driver may be able to release the park brake and shift the transmission out of Park and into a drive gear while the wheelchair lift is deployed. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 403, "Platform Lift Systems."
- What it can cause
- If the vehicle is put into drive while the wheelchair lift is deployed, the vehicle may move forward or backward, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will have the wheelchair lift wiring modified as needed, free of charge. DTNA issued owners an interim notification on January 6, 2021. Owner notification letters were mailed on May 19, 2021. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-868.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Built BusesMinotour | 2008 to 2021 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 615 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 53% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2008 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 12 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Thomas Built Buses vehicles have been recalled over the equipment adaptive/mobility 21 times before this, most recently in March 2019 as 19V170000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 22V840000 (seats), 21V741000 (electrical system).
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 Daimler Trucks North America LLC with NHTSA on November 9, 2020 as campaign 20V690000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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