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2000 Rexhall Aerbus 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.
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Latest Aug 20, 2002
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.
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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.
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Reports on file since Aug 20, 2002

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2000 Rexhall Aerbus. 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

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Body & structureBrakes
Filed Aug 20, 2002

CONSUMER APPLIED BRAKES WHILE DRIVING DOWNHILL, PEDAL WENT ALMOST TO THE FLOOR, NO BRAKING ACTION. THE CONSUMER HAD TO DOWNSHIFT TO SLOW THE VEHICLE. DEALER DETERMINED THAT THE BRAKE LINE HAD BEEN PINCHED. *AK THE CONSUMER STATES THAT SUDDENLY WITH NO PRIOR WARNING, THE BRAKE POWER HAD COME DOWN 6-8 PERCENT GRADE NARROW, ON CURVY MOUNTAIN ROADS. THE ENGINE COMPRESSION HELD THE VEHICLE BACK BY SHIFTING DOWN TO FIRST GEAR AND TAPPING WHAT LITTLE BRAKES WERE AVAILABLE. THE CONCERNS OF THE CONSUMER WERE FURTHER INCREASED WHEN THE RPM GAUGE REGISTERED 4-5K THROUGHOUT THE INCIDENT. THE DIAGNOSIS WAS THAT THE METAL BAR THAT GOES ACROSS THE UNIT TO THE GENERATOR IN THE REAR. A SQUARE TUBING WELDED BETWEEN THE FRAME RAILS ABOVE THE REAR END. THE BRAKE LINE GOES UP AND OVER THE REAR HOUSING. APPEARS THAT THE HOUSING CAME DOWN AND PINCHED THE EXPOSED BRAKE LINE. FORD MOTOR COMPANY COULD HAVE AUTHORIZED THE NOMINAL PAYMENT OF THE NECESSARY REPAIRS WITHOUT ASSUMING ANY LIABILITY FOR THE FAULTY STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING. *SCC

NHTSA ID
8016696
Incident
Aug 5, 2002

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.

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