Thomas Built Buses FS-65: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 13 recall campaigns for the Thomas Built Buses FS-65, model years 1994 to 2017. NHTSA has 4 complaints on file for this model line. 17 of the 24 model years have a page on this register. By recall campaigns, the Thomas Built Buses FS-65 is number 8 of 23 model lines of Thomas Built Buses on the register. Recall campaigns for the Thomas Built Buses FS-65: none in 2024 and none in 2025. For all Thomas Built Buses vehicles, the count fell by 25.0%, from 8 in 2024 to 6 in 2025.
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.
- 19941
- 19952
- 19962
- 19972
- 19982
- 19992
- 20002
- 20014
- 20024
- 20035
- 20047
- 20059
- 200611
- 20079
- 20084
- 20092
- 20102
- 20112
- 20121
- 20131
- 20141
- 20151
- 20161
- 20171
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 606 |
| 2016 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 606 |
| 2015 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 606 |
| 2014 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 606 |
| 2013 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 606 |
| 2012 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 606 |
| 2011 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 7,437 |
| 2010 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 7,437 |
| 2009 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 7,437 |
| 2008 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 284,175 |
| 2007 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 9 | 2 | 1200% | 292,100 |
| 2006 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 11 | 1 | 600% | 329,409 |
| 2005 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 9 | 0 | 0% | 321,824 |
| 2004 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 7 | 1 | 600% | 315,458 |
| 2003 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 5 | 0 | 0% | 284,464 |
| 2002 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 288,609 |
| 2001 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 294,363 |
| 2000 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 254,700 |
| 1999 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 254,700 |
| 1998 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 254,700 |
| 1997 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 254,700 |
| 1996 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 254,700 |
| 1995 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 254,700 |
| 1994 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 11,265 |
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
6 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Steering | 500 | 3 |
| Electrical System | 166.7 | 1 |
| Service Brakes, Air | 166.7 | 1 |
| Suspension | 166.7 | 1 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- SAF-T-Liner C2137 campaigns
- C29 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner HDX81 campaigns
- MVP EF16 campaigns
- Minotour61 campaigns
- HDX26 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner ER7 campaigns
- EF3 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner EFX42 campaigns
- Transit Liner ER3 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner EF8 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner C2 Jouley17 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner MVP-EF6 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner FS654 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner MVP-ER4 campaigns
- HDX EF2 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner HDX29 campaigns
- Minotour SRW3 campaigns
- TL-9603 campaigns
- Vista3 campaigns
- FS652 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner EFX22 campaigns
Thomas Built Buses: all 23 model lines
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Thomas Built Buses FS-65: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/thomas-built-buses/fs-65/. 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
- 3 Nov 2026
- Complaint file through
- 5 Nov 2026
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- FREIGHTLINER LLC
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 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2006 with 11, 2007 with 9, 2005 with 9. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Thomas Built Buses FS-65 model year has the most complaints?
- The 2007 model year, with 2 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 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 name?
- Steering: 3 component mentions. Electrical System: 1 component mention. Service Brakes, Air: 1 component mention.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Thomas Built Buses FS-65?
- 6 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.