1996 Blue Bird Buses

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the electrical system › 12v/24v/48v battery. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Electrical System › 12v/24v/48v Battery1
010

What owners reported

Newest filings
Electrical System › 12v/24v/48v BatteryFire
Filed Sep 18, 2001NY

MANUFACTURER'S RECALL R01FF; VEHICLE WAS CONSUMED BY A FIRE THAT WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN STARTED IN ENGINE COMPARTMENT WHERE BATTERY WAS LOCATED. POSSIBLE SHORT CIRCUIT COULD HAVE CAUSED FIRE TO START. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION / ATTACHMENTS.*AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2002
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20022000Routine
20012000Routine
20001000Routine
19971000Routine
1996 — this page1010Routine
19951000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.