2000 Transcraft Eagle & 2000 Transcraft TL2000 + 2 more recall: body & structure
⚠️ What's wrong
Vehicle description: flatbed trailers. The wrong material specification was furnished for the vertical gussets of the bumper. This would allow the bumper to fail by folding under the trailer at lower impact forces than allowed. These bumpers do not meet the requirements of FMVSS no. 223, "rear impact guards."
💥 The risk
Failure of the rear bumper could allow vehicles involved in front end collision with the rear end of the trailer to run under the rear end of the trailer causing vehicle damage to the trailer/vehicle and could result in bodily injury to vehicle occupants.
🔧 The fix
Dealers will add two steel bars to the vertical gussets of the rear bumper.
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
- 00V221000
- Manufacturer
- TRANSCRAFT CORPORATION
- Vehicles affected
- 1,236
- Component
- STRUCTURE:BODY:BUMPERS
- Owner phone
- 1-800-950-2995
- NHTSA hotline
- 1-888-327-4236
- Owner letters mailed
- Aug 28, 2000
- Built
- Feb 23, 1998 – May 10, 2000
- Recall started by
- OVSC
- Notes
- Owner notification began august 28, 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 transcraft at 1-800-950-2995, extension 399. Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).