Recall Register

Orion I: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the Orion I, model years 1977 to 1994. NHTSA has 2 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 18 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. 19771
  2. 19781
  3. 19791
  4. 19801
  5. 19811
  6. 19821
  7. 19831
  8. 19841
  9. 19851
  10. 19861
  11. 19872
  12. 19882
  13. 19891
  14. 19901
  15. 19911
  16. 19922
  17. 19932
  18. 19941
Orion I: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1994 Orion I NHTSA page100%45
1993 Orion I200%3,682
1992 Orion I221800%3,682
1991 Orion I NHTSA page100%3,637
1990 Orion I NHTSA page100%3,637
1989 Orion I NHTSA page100%3,637
1988 Orion I200%4,948
1987 Orion I200%4,948
1986 Orion I NHTSA page100%1,311
1985 Orion I NHTSA page100%1,311
1984 Orion I NHTSA page100%1,311
1983 Orion I NHTSA page100%1,311
1982 Orion I NHTSA page100%1,311
1981 Orion I NHTSA page100%1,311
1980 Orion I NHTSA page100%1,311
1979 Orion I NHTSA page100%1,311
1978 Orion I NHTSA page100%1,311
1977 Orion I NHTSA page100%1,311

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

2 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.

Orion I: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Fuel System, Other1,0002

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Orion I, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1993, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Orion I, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 2 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Orion: all 6 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Orion I: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/orion/i/. 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
BUS INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA

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 Orion I model years have the most recall campaigns?
1993 with 2, 1992 with 2, 1988 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Orion I model year has the most complaints?
The 1992 model year, with 2 of the 2 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Orion I name?
Fuel System, Other: 2 component mentions.