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NHTSA campaign 19V712000 · Part 573 safety recall report

Daimler Trucks North America LLC: Seats

Daimler Trucks North America LLC reported this defect to federal regulators on Oct 4, 2019 and put the number of vehicles at risk at 53,528. The repair is free for as long as the recall stands.

The defect

Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2014-2020 Thomas Built Saf-T-Liner EFX, Minotour, Saf-T-Liner C2, and Saf-T-Liner HDX school buses equipped with SynTec S3B or S3C seats. The seats may have been manufactured with styrene blocks that may not provide sufficient impact absorption in certain specific areas around the steel seat frame of the back support. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 222, "School Bus Passenger Seating and Crash Protection."

The risk

The lack of impact absorption increases the risk of injury in the event of a crash.

The remedy

DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will install additional impact material between the re-bond back and the vinyl back cover to increase the amount of absorption, free of charge. DTNA issued owners an interim notification on November 29, 2019. The recall began June 22, 2020. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-832.

28 model years covered

Newest first
VehicleComplaintsRecallsFiresCrashes
2020 Thomas Built Buses Minotour0700
2020 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C211600
2020 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx0800
2020 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX01800
2019 Thomas Built Buses Minotour0600
2019 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C202400
2019 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx01000
2019 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX12110
2018 Thomas Built Buses Minotour11300
2018 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C212201
2018 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx01400
2018 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX02600
2017 Thomas Built Buses Minotour01900
2017 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C202800
2017 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx01600
2017 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX03200
2016 Thomas Built Buses Minotour02000
2016 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C202500
2016 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx01200
2016 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX02900
2015 Thomas Built Buses Minotour02100
2015 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C222000
2015 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx01200
2015 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX03100
2014 Thomas Built Buses Minotour01700
2014 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C201800
2014 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx01500
2014 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX03000

What this page is, and what to do next

A recall is not an opinion. It is a Part 573 report a manufacturer is required by federal law to file once it decides a defect poses an unreasonable risk to safety, and it commits them to repairing the vehicle at no cost to the owner. The three passages above are the manufacturer’s own wording as published by NHTSA.

This page describes the campaign. It cannot tell you whether one particular car has already been through the shop — that is tracked by VIN, and only the manufacturer knows it. Check yours at nhtsa.gov/recalls or with a franchised dealer, quoting campaign number 19V712000.

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