2008 Thomas Built Buses EF

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the vehicle speed control › accelerator pedal. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Vehicle Speed Control › Accelerator Pedal	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Vehicle Speed Control › Accelerator Pedal

Filed Sep 17, 200937,920 milesPA

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 THOMAS BUILT BUS ENGINE FRONT (EF). THE CONTACT WAS DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 25 MPH ON NORMAL ROAD CONDITIONS WHEN THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL WAS IN THE DEPRESSED POSITION. THE PEDAL ALSO BECAME STUCK IN THAT POSITION. THERE WAS EXTREME PRESSURE APPLIED TO THE BRAKE PEDAL, FOLLOWED BY NO RESPONSE. THE PARKING BRAKE RAPIDLY ENGAGED AND THE GEAR SHIFT WAS PLACED IN THE "NEUTRAL" POSITION IN ORDER TO SLOW DOWN AND STOP THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE RESUMED NORMAL OPERATION WITH CAUTION. A CERTIFIED TECHNICIAN REPAIRED THE VEHICLE AND STATED THAT THE FAILURE WAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 37.920. THE CURRENT MILEAGE IS 38,090. UPDATED 10/21/09 *BF UPDATED 10/20/09. *JB

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2008

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Assessment
2012	0	1	Routine
2011	0	1	Routine
2008 — this page	1	0	Routine
2007	1	1	Routine
2006	0	2	Routine
2005	0	1	Routine
2004	0	1	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.