Starcraft Equipment: Labels

Starcraft is recalling about 832 vehicles over a problem with the equipment. If the tire is filled based on the incorrect information listed on the placard, the tire may be over inflated, possibly resulting in sudden tire failure, increasing the risk of a crash.

Campaign
15V430000
Manufacturer
Starcraft Bus
Reported
6 July 2015
Vehicles
832
Built between
Oct 2008 – Jun 2015
Models
2
Recall type
Vehicle
Initiated by
NHTSA compliance test
Owners notified
4 September 2015
Repaired
86%
Unrepaired
0

Does this affect my vehicle?

This recall covers vehicles built between October 2008 and June 2015. If yours was built outside that window, it is not part of this recall.

  • 2008-2015 Starcraft ProdigyBuilt October 2008 to June 2015
  • 2008-2015 Starcraft QuestBuilt October 2008 to June 2015

Repair progress

The manufacturer reports every reachable vehicle in this recall has been repaired, as of Q1 2017.

86% repaired — 718 of 832 reported

Owners not reachable
114

Manufacturers file these figures with NHTSA each quarter. Vehicles the manufacturer could not trace, or that have been scrapped or exported, are counted separately and are not included in the unrepaired figure.

What the defect is

Starcraft Bus (Starcraft) is recalling certain model year 2008-2015 Prodigy and Quest school buses manufactured October 20, 2008, to June 1, 2015. The affected vehicles may be equipped with Tire Placards that display an incorrect kilopascal (kPa) value for tire pressures. The label may also be missing the spare tire information. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 110, "Tire Selection and Rims and Motor Home/Recreation Vehicle Trailer Load Carrying Capacity Information for Motor Vehicles with a GVWR of 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds) or less."

What could happen

If the tire is filled based on the incorrect information listed on the placard, the tire may be over inflated, possibly resulting in sudden tire failure, increasing the risk of a crash.

What gets fixed

Starcraft will notify owners and will provide them with corrected labels, free of charge. The recall began on September 4, 2015.

Timeline

  1. Vehicles builtOctober 2008 to June 2015
  2. Recall reported to NHTSA6 July 2015
  3. Owners notified4 September 2015
  4. Latest repair reportQ1 2017 — 86% repaired

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 6 July 2015.

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 Starcraft customer service at 1-800-348-7440.

Official source

Recalling manufacturer
Starcraft Bus
Safety standard
FMVSS 110
Recall initiated by
OVSC

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

Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to 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.

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