SEATS:CRITICAL FASTENERS
A detached passenger seat may inadequately restrain a passenger during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
10 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory.
1 campaign covering the 2015 NOVA BUS LFS ARTIC carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
A detached passenger seat may inadequately restrain a passenger during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
A seat belt that does not retract properly may result in a loose seat belt, which can increase the risk of injury in a crash.
The momentary text message board duplicating light signals may cause confusion, increasing the risk of a crash.
If the cantilever seat drops while it is occupied, there is an increased risk of an injury.
If there is a loss of vehicle stability, it can increase the risk of a crash.
Breakage of the guide pin can cause loss of braking ability or loss of tire pressure, increasing the risk of a crash.
Two 2015 NOVA BUS LFS ARTICs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.