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NHTSA recall 00V221000

Structure › Body › Bumpers

Transcraft Eagle and 3 more

Reported Aug 14, 20001,236 vehicles affectedTRANSCRAFT CORPORATIONBuilt Feb 23, 1998 – May 10, 2000

The defect

Vehicle description: flatbed trailers. the wrong material specification was furnished for the vertical gussets of the bumper. this would allow the bumper to fail by folding under the trailer at lower impact forces than allowed. these bumpers do not meet the requirements of fmvss no. 223, "rear impact guards."

The risk

Failure of the rear bumper could allow vehicles involved in front end collision with the rear end of the trailer to run under the rear end of the trailer causing vehicle damage to the trailer/vehicle and could result in bodily injury to vehicle occupants.

The remedy

Dealers will add two steel bars to the vertical gussets of the rear bumper.

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Vehicles in this recall

Transcraft Eagle
199819992000
Transcraft TL2000
199819992000
Transcraft TL3000
199819992000
Transcraft TL80K
199819992000

Notes

Owner notification began august 28, 2000. 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 transcraft at 1-800-950-2995, extension 399. Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-dash-2-dot (1-888-327-4236).