IC Bus Equipment Adaptive/Mobility

Ic Bus is recalling about 1,027 vehicles over a problem with the equipment adaptive/mobility. Should the threshold warning system fail to operate, the lift user can fall from the vehicle and be seriously injured.

Campaign
08V011000
Manufacturer
INTERNATIONAL TRUCK & ENGINE CORPORATION
Reported
9 January 2008
Vehicles
1,027
Built between
Jul 2005 – Jul 2006
Models
6
Recall type
Vehicle
Initiated by
Manufacturer
Owners notified
Not yet
Repaired
Not reported
Unrepaired
Not reported

Does this affect my vehicle?

This recall covers vehicles built between July 2005 and July 2006. If yours was built outside that window, it is not part of this recall.

  • 2006-2007 IC Bus BesbBuilt July 2005 to July 2006
  • 2006-2007 IC Bus CecbBuilt July 2005 to July 2006
  • 2006-2007 IC Bus CesbBuilt July 2005 to July 2006
  • 2006-2007 IC Bus FecbBuilt July 2005 to July 2006
  • 2006-2007 IC Bus FesbBuilt July 2005 to July 2006
  • 2006-2007 IC Bus ResbBuilt July 2005 to July 2006

What the defect is

International is recalling 1,027 my 2006-2007 be, ce, fe, and re school and commercial buses manufactured from july 11, 2005 through july 31, 2006, and equipped with braun platform lifts for failing to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 404, "platform lift installations in motor vehicles." a passenger can approach the exposed lift doorway without the audible alarm alerting them of their proximity to the threshold.

What could happen

Should the threshold warning system fail to operate, the lift user can fall from the vehicle and be seriously injured.

What gets fixed

INTERNATIONAL IS WORKING WITH BRAUN CORPORATION TO HAVE THE DOORWAY LIFT FIXED FREE OF CHARGE (PLEASE SEE 06E094).

Timeline

  1. Vehicles builtJuly 2005 to July 2006
  2. Recall reported to NHTSA9 January 2008

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 9 January 2008.

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

Owners may contact braun corporation at 1-800-946-7513 or international at 1-800-448-7825.

Official source

Manufacturer's recall number
07516
Recalling manufacturer
INTERNATIONAL TRUCK & ENGINE CORPORATION
Safety standard
FMVSS 404
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

International recall no. 07516.CUSTOMERS may also 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

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