Recall Register

Orion VII: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 26 recall campaigns for the Orion VII, model years 2001 to 2012. NHTSA has 2 complaints on file for this model line. 12 of the 12 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. 20012
  2. 20026
  3. 20037
  4. 200413
  5. 200511
  6. 20069
  7. 20079
  8. 200811
  9. 20098
  10. 20105
  11. 20114
  12. 20124
Orion VII: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2012 Orion VII400%1,489
2011 Orion VII400%1,489
2010 Orion VII500%4,423
2009 Orion VII81600%6,203
2008 Orion VII1100%7,184
2007 Orion VII91600%6,175
2006 Orion VII900%5,960
2005 Orion VII1100%5,792
2004 Orion VII1300%6,551
2003 Orion VII700%5,901
2002 Orion VII600%5,599
2001 Orion VII200%1,394

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

3 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 VII: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System333.31
Fuel System, Other333.31
Engine and Engine Cooling333.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Orion VII, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2009, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Orion VII, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Orion: all 6 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Orion VII: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/orion/vii/. 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
ORION BUS INDUSTRIES LTD.

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 VII model years have the most recall campaigns?
2004 with 13, 2008 with 11, 2005 with 11. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Orion VII model year has the most complaints?
The 2007 model year, with 1 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 VII name?
Electrical System: 1 component mention. Fuel System, Other: 1 component mention. Engine and Engine Cooling: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Orion VII?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.