1993 Blue Bird School Bus

Routine

Owners filed 4 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine and engine cooling › engine › gasoline › turbo/supercharger. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline › Turbo/Supercharger2
000
Suspension1
000
Electrical System › Ignition1
010

What owners reported

Newest filings
Electrical System › IgnitionFire
Filed Oct 30, 1997GA

IGNITION PRIMARY AND SECONDARY WIRING SHORTED OUT, RESULTING IN A VEHICLE FIRE. *AK

Suspension
Filed Apr 15, 1997CA

SUSPENSION CRACKED.

Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline › Turbo/Supercharger
Filed Jan 17, 1995PA

TURBO HEADER PIPE CRACKED/FELL OFF. (2ND VEHICLE ON 479566) *SKD

Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline › Turbo/Supercharger
Filed Jan 17, 1995PA

TURBO HEAD LINERS CRACKED/FELL OFF. (ORIGINAL ON 480554). *SKD

4 of 4 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1996
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20090100Routine
20012000Routine
20003010Routine
19983000Routine
19973001Fatalities reported
19967000Routine
19954000Routine
1993 — this page4010Routine
19921000Routine
19911000Routine

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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.