Recall Register

Blue Bird SBCV: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 9 recall campaigns for the Blue Bird SBCV, model years 1980 to 1998. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 6 of the 19 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19801
  2. 19811
  3. 19821
  4. 19831
  5. 19841
  6. 19851
  7. 19861
  8. 19871
  9. 19882
  10. 19891
  11. 19901
  12. 19911
  13. 19922
  14. 19933
  15. 19945
  16. 19957
  17. 19964
  18. 19971
  19. 19981
Blue Bird SBCV: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1998 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%564
1997 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page111900%564
1996 Blue Bird SBCV400%32,131
1995 Blue Bird SBCV700%34,864
1994 Blue Bird SBCV500%34,440
1993 Blue Bird SBCV300%31,680
1992 Blue Bird SBCV200%20,309
1991 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%18,000
1990 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%18,000
1989 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%18,000
1988 Blue Bird SBCV200%92,000
1987 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%74,000
1986 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%74,000
1985 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%74,000
1984 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%74,000
1983 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%74,000
1982 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%74,000
1981 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%74,000
1980 Blue Bird SBCV NHTSA page100%74,000

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

12 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Blue Bird SBCV: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure1,00012

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Blue Bird SBCV, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1996, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Blue Bird SBCV, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2001, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Blue Bird: all 40 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Blue Bird SBCV: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/blue-bird/sbcv/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
BLUE BIRD BODY COMPANY

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Blue Bird SBCV model years have the most recall campaigns?
1995 with 7, 1994 with 5, 1996 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Blue Bird SBCV model year has the most complaints?
The 1997 model year, with 1 of the 1 complaint for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Blue Bird SBCV name?
Structure: 12 component mentions.