- Vehicles
- 400
- Built between
- Not published
- Models
- 1
- Recall type
- Equipment
- Initiated by
- NHTSA investigation
- Owners notified
- 12 August 2003
- Repaired
- Not reported
- Unrepaired
- Not reported
Does this affect my vehicle?
The manufacturer did not publish a build-date range for this recall, so the model and year list below is the only way to tell whether your vehicle is covered.
- EMC DS-2000
What the defect is
Vehicles equipped with the emc DS-2000 primary driving control system. There have been reports of vehicles equipped with the emc DS-2000 drifted or veered off course and did not respond to driver's steering efforts to correct the reported drifting.
What could happen
The driver can lose steering control, possibly resulting in a vehicle crash.
What gets fixed
EMC HAS DEVELOPED SEVERAL SAFETY UPGRADES FOR THE DS-2000 TO IMPROVE SYSTEM REDUNDANCY AND RELIABILITY. EMC WILL BRING EACH RETURNED UNIT TO THE CURRENT UPGRADED REVISION OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE. A MODIFICATION HAS BEEN MADE THAT FREES UP THE A2D CONVERTER AND FEEDS IT WITH 1/2 THE ENCODER REFERENCE VOLTAGE THROUGH A RESISTOR DIVIDER. THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CHANGED TO MONITOR THAT VOLTAGE AT STARTUP TO MAKE SURE IT IS AN ACCEPTABLE RANGE. IF DURING OPERATION IT CHANGES FROM ITS STARTUP VALVE, THE SYSTEM WILL GIVE AN ERROR, SWITCH SIDES AND GO INTO OPEN LOOP MODE OF OPERATION. THIS EFFECTIVELY TEST ALL THREE REFERENCES IN THE SYSTEM. EMC WILL NOTIFY ITS CUSTOMERS AND PROVIDE THIS REMEDY FREE OF CHARGE. OWNER NOTIFICATION BEGAN AUGUST 12, 2003.
Timeline
- Recall reported to NHTSA29 January 2003
- Owners notified12 August 2003
Your rights
A safety recall repair is free. Under US federal law the manufacturer must fix a safety defect at no cost to you — no charge for parts, labor or diagnosis — whether or not you are the original owner. A dealer cannot charge you for recall work, and cannot require you to have bought the vehicle from them.
That entitlement is not unlimited. It applies where the vehicle was first sold less than 15 years before the recall was announced — 5 years for tires. Past that a manufacturer may still do the repair free of charge, and many do, but they are no longer obliged to. This recall was reported on 29 January 2003.
To arrange the repair, contact any franchised dealer for the brand. If a dealer refuses the work or tries to charge for it, you can report that to NHTSA at nhtsa.gov/recalls or on 1-888-327-4236.
Official source
- Recalling manufacturer
- ELECTRONIC MOBILITY CONTROLS
- Recall initiated by
- ODI
Everything on this page — the models listed, the build dates and the repair figures — comes from the manufacturer's filing to NHTSA and describes the vehicle line as a whole, not any individual car. Only the manufacturer can confirm whether a specific vehicle is affected, and whether its recall work has already been carried out. Check yours by VIN and read the official notice at nhtsa.gov/recalls.
Additional notes
Customers can contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).
Check your own vehicle
This page describes the recall, not any one car. To see which recalls cover a specific vehicle, search by make, model and year.
A VIN lookup here identifies your vehicle and shows recalls issued for that make, model and year. It cannot tell you what is still open on your individual car - only the manufacturer knows that. Search by VIN instead, or check your VIN at nhtsa.gov for whether a recall is still open on your individual car.