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2001 Thomas Mvp Er 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 Oct 23, 2007
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 Oct 23, 2007

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2001 Thomas Mvp Er. 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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Engine
Filed Oct 23, 2007
Fire reported

2001 MVP-ER-140 HS SCHOOL BUS COMPLAINT DUE TO A DEFECT. CONSUMER STATES THAT SCHOOL BUS MODEL LISTED ABOVE CAUGHT FIRE IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. *KB AN ACCIDENT INVESTIGATOR DETERMINED THAT THE FIRE STARTED WHEN PRESSURIZED TRANSMISSION FLUID SPRAYED FROM THE TRANSMISSION THROUGHOUT THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. THE TRANSMISSION VENT TUBE HAD BEEN CRUSHED BY THE WEIGHT OF THE CROSSOVER EXHAUST PIPE, WHICH WAS NORMALLY POSITIONED TWO INCHES ABOVE THE VENT. OVER TIME, THE BRACKETS THAT HOLD THE CROSSOVER PIPE BECAME LOOSE, ALLOWING THE PIPE TO FALL DOWN AND MAKE CONTACT WITH THE TRANSMISSION VENT. ONCE THE VENT WAS CLOSED, PRESSURE BUILT UP IN THE TRANSMISSION, AND ITS FLUID WAS EXPELLED FROM THE DIPSTICK TUBE. THE INVESTIGATOR'S FINDINGS CONCLUDED THE FIRE WAS THE RESULT OF THE NEGLIGENT DESIGN OF THE CROSSOVER EXHAUST PIPE, SPECIFICALLY THE NUMBER, LOCATION AND OR TYPE OF BRACKETS USED TO HOLD THE PIPE IN PLACE. GIVEN THE RISK PRESENTED BY CLOSURE OF THE TRANSMISSION VENT, IT WAS IMPERATIVE THAT THE PIPE BE INSTALLED SO THAT ITS POSITION RELATIVE TO THE TRANSMISSION VENT WOULD NOT SHIFT OVER TIME. *JB

NHTSA ID
10207155
Incident
May 12, 2005

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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