Recall · 21V114000
Life Line Emergency Vehicles recalled 2 models over exterior lighting
2
Vehicles covered
2
Models
2
Model years
February 25, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- The defect
- Life Line Emergency Vehicles (Life Line) is recalling one 2020 Ford F450 vehicle and one 2017 Navistar Durastar vehicle, equipped with 7x9 combination LED Stop-Tail-Turn reverse lights. The lights may be too bright, exceeding the maximum light output allowed which may adversely affect the vision of drivers. As such, these lamps fail to comply with the requirements of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
- What it can cause
- The excessive brightness may affect the vision of other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- ECCO will provide a filter kit that will ensure the lights perform in the correct photometric intensity ranges, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on March 15, 2021. Owners may contact Life Line customer service at 1-563-578-3317 ext. 132.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| FordF-450 | 2019 | 2019 |
| InternationalLT | 2016 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 2 vehicles this is a small campaign: 98% 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 2016 to 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 34 times before this, most recently in February 2020 as 20V097000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 1 of the 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 19 complaints with NHTSA, 5 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in December 2018, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry one other recall published here: 22V546000 (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 Life Line Emergency Vehicles with NHTSA on February 25, 2021 as campaign 21V114000. 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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