1995 Navistar School Bus Chassis

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the exterior lighting › turn signal › switch. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Exterior Lighting › Turn Signal › Switch	1		0	0	0
Electrical System › Wiring › Interior/Under Dash	1		0	1	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Electrical System › Wiring › Interior/Under DashFire

Filed Jun 16, 200490,029 milesVA

VEHICULAR FIRE IN A 1995 THOMAS/NAVISTAR VISTA SCHOOL BUS. ELECTRICAL FIRE OCCURRED IN THE DORAN MFG. EXTERIOR LIGHT MONITOR PANEL ON A SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOOL BUS. FIRE WAS LIMITED TO THE PANEL ITSELF, NO WIRING WAS DIRECTLY INVOLVED. DRIVER WAS OPERATING LIGHTS AS PART OF PRE-TRIP INSPECTION PRECEDING FIRE. FIRE INVOLVED OPEN FLAME IN DORAN ELECTRICAL PANEL, NO INJURIES, NO CHILDREN ON BUS AT THE TIME. THE PANEL WAS REPLACED AS WAS AN IN-LINE FUSE HOLDER CARRYING POWER TO THE PANEL. THE FUSE HOLDER WAS NOT DAMAGED, BUT TEMPERATURE OF THE WIRING APPEARED TO BE ELEVATED. PARTS WHICH WERE REPLACED WERE RETAINED.*AK

Exterior Lighting › Turn Signal › Switch

Filed Nov 14, 1996MN

NAVISTAR FBC 1980-1989 S-SERIES, 1990-1996 NO-3800 SCHOOL BUSES. FIFTY NAVISTAR SCHOOLS BUSES, EXPERIENCED MECHANICAL PROBLEMS IN THE TURN SIGNAL SWITCH. THE TURN SIGNAL WILL NOT SELF CANCEL, OR WILL NOT HOLD THE SIGNAL. *AK

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1995

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Assessment
1995 — this page	2	0	1	Routine
1992	0	1	0	Routine
1991	0	1	0	Routine
1990	0	1	0	Routine

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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.