Recall Register

Orion VI: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 15 recall campaigns for the Orion VI, model years 1995 to 2005. NHTSA has 4 complaints on file for this model line. 7 of the 11 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. 19954
  2. 19967
  3. 19976
  4. 19988
  5. 19993
  6. 20003
  7. 20011
  8. 20023
  9. 20031
  10. 20041
  11. 20051
Orion VI: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2005 Orion VI NHTSA page100%405
2004 Orion VI NHTSA page100%405
2003 Orion VI NHTSA page100%405
2002 Orion VI300%1,247
2001 Orion VI NHTSA page100%4,191
2000 Orion VI33825%5,335
1999 Orion VI31275%5,335
1998 Orion VI800%6,634
1997 Orion VI600%5,202
1996 Orion VI700%5,077
1995 Orion VI400%5,412

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

5 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 VI: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic6003
Engine and Engine Cooling2001
Tires2001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Orion VI, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1998, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Orion VI, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 2 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Orion: all 6 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Orion VI: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/orion/vi/. 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
DAIMLER BUSES NORTH AMERICA, INC.

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 VI model years have the most recall campaigns?
1998 with 8, 1996 with 7, 1997 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Orion VI model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 3 of the 4 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Orion VI name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 3 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 1 component mention. Tires: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Orion VI?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.