2005 THOMAS SAF-T-LINER ER Recall

Campaign:

05V208000 on 05/08/2005

Component:

Vehicle speed control

Manufactured:

10/31/2002 - 02/27/2005

Affected:

153

Defect:

Certain my 2002-2005 thomas built saf-t-liner er school buses and er transit buses manufactured between november 2002 and february 2005 and equipped with john deere 8.1l compressed natural gas engines models hfn01 and hfn03. the engine control unit and throttle can unexpectedly surge. these units fail to conform to federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 124, accelerator control systems.

Consequence:

A sudden engine surge could possibly result in a vehicle crash.

Correction:

John deere will notify the customers of freightliner/thomas built and will update the engine control unit software free of charge. owners may contact john deere at 1-800-jd-engine.

Notes:

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.

2005 THOMAS SAF-T-LINER ER 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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