Sure Power Electrical System: 12V/24V/48V Battery

Sure Power is recalling about 401 vehicles over a problem with the electrical system. The shorted inductor may cause the battery equalizer to smoke or burn, possibly resulting in a fire.

Campaign
06E077000
Manufacturer
SURE POWER INDUSTRIES, INC.
Reported
8 September 2006
Vehicles
401
Built between
Not published
Models
1
Recall type
Equipment
Initiated by
Manufacturer
Owners notified
Not yet
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.

  • Sure Power 52210

What the defect is

Sure power p/n 52210 24V/12V 100 amp series 1 battery equalizers manufactured from october 24, 2000, through april 30, 2001, for use on certain north america bus industries (nabi) transit coaches. These equalizers used an inductor with the coils protected by insulation. Over time, the inductor insulation may degrade creating a short.

What could happen

The shorted inductor may cause the battery equalizer to smoke or burn, possibly resulting in a fire.

What gets fixed

NABI WILL NOTIFY OWNERS AND REPLACE THE EQUALIZERS FREE OF CHARGE.

Timeline

  1. Recall reported to NHTSA8 September 2006

No owner-notification date has been published yet. Manufacturers normally write to registered owners within 60 days of reporting a recall.

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 8 September 2006.

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.

Manufacturer contact

For more information, owners may contact sure power at 1-800-845-6269 ext. 113.

Official source

Manufacturer's recall number
SPSR002
Recalling manufacturer
SURE POWER INDUSTRIES, INC.
Recall initiated by
MFR

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

Sure power recall no. SPSR002.CUSTOMERS can contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236; (tty: 1-800-424-9153); or go to http://www.safercar.gov.

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.

Same component

Same brand