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1986 Blue Bird School Bus Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
2
Latest May 16, 1996
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
1
Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
0
Reports on file since Feb 15, 1995

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 1986 Blue Bird School Bus. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

Showing 1–2 of 2

Interior & seats
Filed May 16, 1996

SHEET METAL ON BACK OF BUS SEAT WELDS BROKE. *DH

NHTSA ID
504693
Incident
Nov 8, 1994
Electrical
Filed Feb 15, 1995
Fire reported

CORROSION AT CONNECTION POINTS BETWEEN BATTERY AND FRAME OF BUS CAUSED INADEQUATE GROUNDING, RESULTING IN FIRE. *SKD

NHTSA ID
481239
Incident
Jan 10, 1995

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

Data sources

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