2003 THOMAS MVP Recall

Campaign:

05V207000 on 05/08/2005

Component:

Engine and engine cooling

Manufactured:

09/30/2000 - 12/30/2003

Affected:

248

Defect:

Certain my 2000-2003 freightliner, thomas mvp school bus and western stars trucks manufactured between november 19, 2000, and march 30, 2005, and equipped with webasto coolant heaters, model dbw 2010, assembled with webasto burner tubes, p/n 303046/26533a. the stainless steel burner tube is made out of a material that is not to specification and could fail prematurely.

Consequence:

Should the burner tube fail, the coolant heater could overheat, possibly resulting in a fire.

Correction:

Thomas built will notify its customers and replace the subject burner tubes with new certified burner tubes at no cost to the owner. the recall began on november 16, 2005. owners may contact thomas built customer support office at 1-336-889-4871 or contact freightliner at 1-800-547-0712.

Notes:

Freightliner/thomas built recall no. fl-449.customers may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to http://www.safercar.gov.

2003 THOMAS MVP TSB

Bulletin:

PS-13-8

Component:

043200 service brakes, air:slack adjusters:automatic

Summary:

Thomas built bus: all models of thomas buses using automatic slack adjusters. the automatic slack adjusters are routinely being adjusted by some operators and service technicians to make brake pushrod stroke appear to be with legal brake

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