Consumer Complaint Detail
BLUE BIRD / ALL AMERICAN / 2004
0 Injured
0 Death
No Fire
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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 003080441 | Incident Date: Oct, 09 2003 |
| Consumer's City: | Consumer's State: 00 |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: MAN | Manufacturers Name: Blue Bird Body Company |
| Model Name: ALL AMERICAN | Model Year: 2004 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Fuel system, diesel |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 1BABGCPA44F | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Sep, 27 2006 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: May, 19 2003 |
| Was Original Owner: Yes | Anti-lock Brakes: No |
| Number of Cylinders: 6 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: We purchases 10 new blue bird all american school buses through our local authorized dealer, within a month of receiving the 10 unit they start presenting code 368 red failure , causing loss of power, white smoke and stalling , this was reported to the distributor and they replaced fuel filters and suggested that there was humidity in the ecm. this same code failure has overcome all of our unit in the last past 3 years to the extent that now we are faced with the replacement of the vp44 fuel injection pump a very costly investment for unit that have extremely low mileage (average of 35,000 kms). we have followed a very strict preventive maintenance schedule for all our units according to the manuals supplied thus after suspecting that there could be a manufacturers problem we started investigating over the internet and effectively we found that the cummins 225 isb motors have a history of this very same problem which related to the lift pump failure ,there are several recalls out for this problem but there are non yet that cover our unit, so we consider it import that along with any others of the same malfunctioning units we can have a recall considered. *jb |