Allied Exterior Lighting: Flasher Unit

Allied is recalling about 50,000 vehicles over a problem with the exterior lighting.

Campaign
85E017000
Manufacturer
ALLIED ACESS & AUTO PARTS
Reported
26 April 1985
Vehicles
50,000
Built between
Not published
Models
1
Recall type
Equipment
Initiated by
NHTSA compliance test
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.

  • Allied Allied

What the defect is

Flasher units fail to meet requirement of FMVSS NO.108, for durability, starting time and flash rate. Consequence of defect: this results in no turn signal, turn signal continuously on, or rapid signal rate. Failure to properly signal direction of vehicle to traffic could result in an accident.

What gets fixed

REFUND OF PURCHASE PRICE TO CONSUMERS UPON RETURN OF FLASHER UNITS.

Timeline

  1. Recall reported to NHTSA26 April 1985

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 26 April 1985.

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
ALLIED ACESS & AUTO PARTS
Safety standard
FMVSS 108
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

Vehicle category: aftermarket all types of vehiclessystem: electrical/signal flashers, 536BP magnum.

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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