2000 Blue Bird ALL American & 2000 Blue Bird Commercial + 3 more recall: brakes
⚠️ What's wrong
Vehicle description: school and transit buses equipped with bendix air brakes. Bendix changed the internal design of the QR1C relay valve by adding a hole in the internal diaphragm. When the hole in the diaphragm aligns with the hole in the valve body, the brake application time increases.
💥 The risk
Under certain conditions, such as parked on an incline, driver activates the parking brake but removes foot from the threadle valve, the bus could roll before the parking brake is fully engaged.
🔧 The fix
Dealers will replace the diaphragms with holes with solid diaphragms for the QR1C valves.
Is the fix free? Yes. Safety recall repairs are free at any authorized dealer under federal law, including parts and labor. (Vehicles more than 15 years old when the recall was announced can be excluded, but most manufacturers still fix them.)
- NHTSA campaign
- 00V162000
- Manufacturer recall #
- R00DX
- Manufacturer
- BLUE BIRD BODY COMPANY
- Vehicles affected
- 9,687
- Component
- SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:CONTROLS:FOOT CONTROL/VALVE
- NHTSA hotline
- 1-888-327-4236
- Owner letters mailed
- Jun 14, 2000
- Built
- Oct 15, 1997 – May 31, 2000
- Recall started by
- MFR
- Notes
- Owner notification began june 14, 2000.owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact blue bird at 1-912-825-2021. Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).