Thomas Built Buses Hdx 1994

• Recall 46460 [USA]: In the event of a vehicle crash, the seat occupant may not be properly restrained, possibly resulting in personal injury.
  Certain my 1994 through 2002 thomas built minotour, fs-65, mvp-ef, er, and hdx-ef school buses manufactured between january 23, 1994, and april 15, 2002. The seat belt may chafe on the edge of a metal bracket and wear prematurely.
  thomas built will notify owners and replace any chafed seat belts and replace or modify the retainer strip to prevent any further chafing. The recall began on february 8, 2008. Owners may contact thomas built at 336-889-4871 or contact freightliner at 800-547-0712.
  freightliner recall no. Fl-495.Customers may 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.

• Recall 2007104 [Canada]: Seats and restraints
  Certain school buses equipped, at customer request, with passenger seatbelts, may suffer seatbelt failure. The edge of the metal seatbelt retainer strips may cause chafe damage to the belts. Correction: dealers will inspect and, if chafe damage is found, replace seatbelt assemblies. Seatbelt retainer strips will either be replaced or modified to prevent future chafing. Note: this action is deemed a product improvement campaign and is not being conducted under the motor vehicle safety act.

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• Seat belts webbing abrading on frame investigation as of 20061121

  This investigation was opened after odi received notification from two fleets alleging thediscovery ofnumerous seat belts with cut webbing as a result of the webbing abrading against anunderseat metal bracket.The subject vehicles are class "a" school buses weighing under 10,000 pounds.They are required by federal standard fmvss 208 to have seat belts.As a result of this investigation, freightliner will conduct a safety recall to inspect all affected buses for seat belt ¿chafing¿ and will replacedamaged belts as needed. Also, the seat belt retainer strip will be modified or replaced to prevent future chafing.Freightliner expanded the scope of the recall (beyond the original investigation population) to include approximately 10,251 additional buses having gross vehicle weight ratings greater than 10,000 lbs.They determined that these buses are also susceptible to the chafing action.There is no federalrequirement for seat belts in school buses weighing over 10,000 pounds.However, some customers have ordered seat belts and some states have requirements for seat belts.Therefore, freightliner has agreed to address those buses even though there is no applicable federal standard.The recall action taken by freightliner resolves the issues raised by this investigation.Accordingly, this investigation is closed.
  

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