Recall 00V221000: 1998–2000 Transcraft Eagle and 1 other model

Report received

Aug 14, 2000

Manufacturer

Transcraft corporation

Potentially affected

1,236vehicles

Model years

1998–2000

Check your own vehicle. A recall applies only to vehicles within the affected build range. Enter your VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls. Recall repairs are free at a franchised dealer.

What NHTSA recorded

Vehicle description: flatbed trailers. The wrong material specification was furnished for the vertical gussets of the bumper. This would allow the bumper to fail by folding under the trailer at lower impact forces than allowed. These bumpers do not meet the requirements of fmvss no. 223, "rear impact guards."

Possible consequence

Failure of the rear bumper could allow vehicles involved in front end collision with the rear end of the trailer to run under the rear end of the trailer causing vehicle damage to the trailer/vehicle and could result in bodily injury to vehicle occupants.

Remedy

Dealers will add two steel bars to the vertical gussets of the rear bumper.

Affected model years

Pages for each model year show complaints, parts, mileage and other recalls.

• 1998 Transcraft Eagle0 complaints
• 1999 Transcraft Eagle0 complaints
• 2000 Transcraft Eagle1 complaints
• 1998 Transcraft TL20000 complaints
• 1999 Transcraft TL20000 complaints
• 2000 Transcraft TL20000 complaints