2000 Thomas Conventional recall: unknown or other
⚠️ What's wrong
Vehicle description: certain school buses equipped with a storage compartment overhead to the left of the driver fail to meet FMVSS no. 222, "school bus passenger seating and crash protection."
💥 The risk
Contact with this storage compartment does not meet the impact zone requirements of the standard.
🔧 The fix
Dealers will add padding to the sides of the storage compartment. Owner notification began february 8, 2002. 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 thomas built at 1-336-889-4871.
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
- 00V360000
- Manufacturer
- THOMAS BUILT BUSES, INC.
- Vehicles affected
- 11,500
- Component
- UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- NHTSA hotline
- 1-888-327-4236
- Owner letters mailed
- Feb 8, 2002
- Built
- Jan 1, 1977 – Oct 15, 2000
- Recall started by
- MFR
- Notes
- Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).