Recall · 21V547000
Daimler Trucks North America recalled the THOMAS BUILT BUSES SAF-T-Liner C2 over parking brake
267
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
July 20, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
PARKING BRAKE:ELECTRICAL:SWITCH
- The defect
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2021-2022 Thomas Built C2 Saf-T-Liner school buses. The parking brake activation switch may fail to set the parking brake.
- What it can cause
- Unintended movement of the vehicle increases the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- DTNA will update the Dash Electronic Control Unit (DECU ) software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on September 14, 2021. Owners may contact DTNA's customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-896.
- 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.nhtsa.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 BusesSAF-T-Liner C2 | 2021 to 2022 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 267 vehicles this is a small campaign: 57% 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 2021 to 2022, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2021, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Thomas Built Buses vehicles have been recalled over the parking brake 2 times before this, most recently in June 2006 as 06V205000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 16 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V555000 (equipment), 23V670000 (structure), 23V669000 (structure), 23V209000 (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 July 20, 2021 as campaign 21V547000. 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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