Mci D4005 2012

• Recall 132039 [USA]: If the pipe develops a hole, during a regeneration cycle, hot exhaust gases may leak out, increasing the risk of a fire.
  Motor coach industries (mci) is recalling certain 2011-2016 d4500, d4505, d4000, d4005, and d4000 istv motor coaches equipped with isx engines. Due to vibrations, the exhaust bellow pipes develop a hole.
  mci will notify owners, and dealers will replace the bellows pipe assembly with an improved part, free of charge. The recall began july 10, 2018. Owners may contact mci customer service at 1-800-241-2947.
  owners may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.Safercar.Gov.

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• Recall 120895 [USA]: If the pipe fails and a diesel regeneration cycle occurs, the hot exhaust gases will increase the risk of a fire.
  Motor coach industries (mci) is recalling certain 2011-2012 mci d4000, d4005, d4500 and d4505 coaches equipped with cummins isx 12 liter engines. The vehicles may have an incorrectly installed exhaust bellow pipe, resulting in a bend in the pipe which can cause its premature failure.
  mci will notify owners and dealers will inspect and replace any deformed or failed bellow pipes if necessary, free of charge. The recall began on june 15, 2017. Owners may contact motor industries at 1-800-241-2947. Mci's number for this recall is sb 397b.
  owners may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.Safercar.Gov.

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• Recall 111283 [USA]: If the seatbelt anchorage assembly separates from the j-bracket, the bus driver may not be properly restrained in the event of a crash increasing their risk of injury.
  Motor coach industries (mci) is recalling certain model year 2011-2013 and 2015 j4500 coaches manufactured november 18, 2011, to july 10, 2015, 2011-2012 and 2014-2015 d4000 coaches manufactured manufactured september 24, 2010, to september 5, 2015, 2011-2013 and 2015-2016 d4005 coaches manufactured january 17, 2011, to november 23, 2015, 2012-2014 and 2016 d4000istv coaches manufactured july 18, 2012, to december 2, 2015, 2010-2016 d4500 coaches manufactured april 15, 2010, to december 18, 2015 and 2011-2016 d4505 coaches manufactured december 15, 2010, to december 4, 2015. The affected buses are equipped with certain recaro ergo-m commercial bus driver seats that have j-brackets that may be missing welds which could allow the seat belt anchorage assembly to separate from the j-bracket.
  mci will notify owners and dealers will inspect the seats and determined if welds are missing. Any j-bracket that is missing welds will be removed and replaced, free of charge. The recall began on february 15, 2016. Owners may contact mci at 1-800-241-2947. Mci's number for this recall is sb 431.
  owners may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.Safercar.Gov.

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• Recall 100274 [USA]: Once electrically conductive, the material is capable of melting and burning, increasing the risk of a fire.
  Motor coach industries (mci) is recalling certain model year 2000-2012 d, e, g and j series coaches manufactured january 2000 through june 2011 and equipped with sure power battery equalizers containing a particular epoxy sealing, aka 'potting', compound. The specific potting compound used in the subject products for insulation was found to be capable of conducting electricity after being exposed to heat.
  mci will notify owners, and sure power will replace the equalizers, free of charge. Owners may contact mci at 1-847-285-2000. This campaign is mci service bulletin 401.
  owners may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.Safercar.Gov.

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• Recall 96518 [USA]: During a regeneration process to clean exhaust emissions, if the bellows pipe has failed, the hot exhaust gases may not be contained, resulting in a fire.
  Motor coach industries (mci) is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 d4000, d4000istv, d4005, d4500, and d4505 motorcoaches manufactured from may 2012 through december 2012 and equipped with a cummins isx epa 2010 engine. In the affected buses, the bellows pipe in the exhaust system may have been incorrectly assembled, which could result in a failure of the pipe during operation.
  mci will notify owners and dealers will inspect and replace the bellows pipes, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on april 29, 2013. Customers may contact mci at 1-847-285-2000.
  owners may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.Safercar.Gov.

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• Recall 94292 [USA]: If the driver is slow to react during this esc intervention, the vehicle may deviate from the intended line of travel, increasing the risk of a crash.
  Motor coach industries (mci) is recalling certain model year 2003, and 2007-2012 e and j models along with model year 2007-2012 d4000, d4005, d4500, d4505, d4000istv motor coaches equipped with meritor wabco electronic stability control (esc) modules, manufactured from october 2002, through october 2011. Under certain road and driving conditions, vehicle body roll and road inclination characteristics may adversely affect the slip angle calculation of the electronic stability control (esc) system. This might cause the esc to perceive an over steering situation and therefore apply the outer wheel brake on the front axle until the vehicle is perceived to be stable.
  mci will notify owners and replace the control module free of charge. The safety recall began on january 4, 2012. Owners may contact mci customer service at 1-800-241-2947.
  mci safety recall number is 371.Owners 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 .

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• Recall 2018256 [Canada]: Emissions
  On certain motor coaches, the exhaust bellows pipe may fail prematurely and cause a leak. An exhaust leak during a regeneration event could allow the leakage of hot gases and could increase the risk of fire, causing property damage and/or personal injury. Correction: dealers will install a new exhaust pipe assembly.

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• Recall 2017280 [Canada]: Engine
  On certain vehicles, the bellows pipe (a component of the exhaust system) may have been installed incorrectly and could fail. As a result, combustion from a diesel particulate filter regeneration event could exit the failed bellows pipe instead of being completely contained within the exhaust system. If this occurs, the hot combustion gases could cause a fire which may result in property damage and/or personal injury. Correction: authorized mci service facilities will inspect and, if necessary, replace the bellows pipe. Note: this is an expansion of recall 2013-121.

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• Recall 2013121 [Canada]: Engine
  On certain vehicles, the bellows pipe (a component of the exhaust system) may have been installed incorrectly and could fail. As a result, combustion from a diesel particulate filter regeneration event could exit the failed bellows pipe instead of being completely contained within the exhaust system. If this occurs, the hot combustion gases could cause a fire which may result in property damage and/or personal injury. Correction: authorized mci service facilities will inspect and, if necessary, replace the bellows pipe.

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• Recall 2011377 [Canada]: Other
  On certain vehicles, specific operating conditions (such as tight, successive, highly banked curves in opposite directions), could trigger unintended electronic stability control (esc) system intervention. As a result, the esc may unnecessarily apply one of the front brakes in order to correct the perceived oversteer condition. This may cause the vehicle to deviate from the intended path, thereby increasing the risk of a crash causing property damage and/or personal injury. Correction: dealers will replace the esc module.

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• Exhaust bellows pipe fracture recall investigation # RQ17007

  By letter dated april 15, 2013, motor coach industries (mci) notified the office of defects investigation (odi) of a safety defect that may exist in certain model year (my) 2012 and 2013 mci d-model coaches built from december 22, 2011 to may 19, 2012 equipped with the cummins 2010 epa isx 12 liter engine.These vehicles may have had an incorrect installation of the exhaust pipe.If installed incorrectly, the elbow pipe may prematurely fail and if a diesel particulate filter regeneration event occurs, the hot exhaust gases could cause a fire, resulting in injury to persons and/or damage to property.Mci conducted an inspect and repair if necessary recall campaign identified by nhtsa recall no: 13v-142. At the time mci believed that 13v-142 covered all the vehicles potentially having the safety defect. However, odi review of ewr data indicated that other vehicles outside the scope of 13v-142 also experienced the same defect condition. Subsequently, in may 2017, mci expanded the scope of the previous recall to include certain my 2011-2012 mci d-model coaches manufactured from january 31, 2011 to may 19, 2012, identified by nhtsa recall no: 17v-337.In april 2013 when mci conducted recall 13v-142 to remedy incorrectly installed bellows pipes on certain mci model year 2012 and 2013 d model vehicles they also changed the bellows pipe assembly process in then current production.With recall 17v-337 mci expanded the first recall by an additional 178 vehicles they felt also had not had the bellows pipe properly installed.Following the receipt of complaints and ewr data alleging bellows pipe failures on vehicles built after the implementation of the improved assembly process, nhtsa opened this recall query to assess the scope and adequacy of these two safety recalls and mcis recall decision making process.Analysis of the failure data provided by mci to this investigation found that the improved assembly process reduced the failure rate but did not eliminate the defect all together.In response to this investigation, mci agreed to conduct recall 18v-309. This latest recall includes and expands upon the vehicle population of the prior recalls, and implements a new remedy that adds a mesh component to the bellows assembly to reduce vibration.This remedy was also implemented in production in 2015.Vehicles built after this date do not have an elevated failure rate even with a significant amount of time in service.With recall action 18v-309 taken by mci this investigation is closed. Further use of agency resources does not appear to be warranted. The closing of this investigation does not constitute a finding by nhtsa that a safety-related defect does not exist on other model or my vehicles outside of the recall scope. The agency reserves the right to take further action if warranted by the circumstances.
  

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• Mci drive shaft safety loop failures investigation # EA12007

  In the fall of 2011, network contacts made odi aware of four (4) incidents of drive shaft failure on the subject buses involving a loss of vehicle control.Two of the incidents were relatively low speed non-crash events; and two resulted in motor coach rollovers.All four events showed signs of a common failure mode.The incidents and crashes studied during this investigation all resulted from a series of complex events that began with the the yoke journal ears on the drive shafts fracturing.Once the drive shaft failed. It was not adequately contained by a drive shaft safety loop or structure.The spinning and unrestrained drive shaft caused severe damage to components on the steerable tag axle at the rear of the vehicle and created a forced steering condition.Once the rear of the bus was being forcibly steered by the tag axle, the driver lost control of the vehicle.These conclusions are based on the forensics evidence and testing conducted by the vehicle research and test center (vrtc).The vrtc test report is attached to this closing resume that provides details on how the test center was able to conclusively identify the defective components on the buses and demonstrate the sequence of events that caused the buses to crash.Prior to the drive shaft failure events, there were no indications of improper maintenance or that maintenance was required that would have prevented the incidents.Additionally, the u-joints on the incident vehicles were found to be in good working condition at the time of the failure. Finally, records of driver interviews indicated a sudden onset of the failure with no warning.Following the vrtc testing, mci issued recall 14v-335 involving certain model year 1993-1995 102dl3 motor coaches manufactured november 1992 to january 1995, and 2006 and 2008 d4505 motor coaches manufactured june 2005 to april 2008.The affected buses are equipped with a drive shaft with a compressed length of 30 inches or less (allowing it to escape containment if it fails), a steerable trailing tag axle equipped with a system that changes the axle caster when the vehicle is in reverse travel and no electronic stability control (esc).Recall 14v-335 addresses the concerns of this investigation.The odi report cited above can be viewed at www-odi.Nhtsa.Dot.Gov/owners/searchnhtsaid: odi number 10447575.
  

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• Mci driveshaft safety loop failures investigation # PE12007

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