Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 7 recall campaigns for the Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER, model years 1995 to 2004. NHTSA has 2 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 8 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER | 2 | 0 | 0% | 106,051 |
| 2003 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER | 2 | 0 | 0% | 106,051 |
| 2002 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER | 5 | 1 | 400% | 131,588 |
| 2001 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER | 4 | 0 | 0% | 25,682 |
| 2000 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER | 3 | 1 | 400% | 25,560 |
| 1997 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 62 |
| 1996 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 62 |
| 1995 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 62 |
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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Structure | 500 | 1 |
| Seats | 500 | 1 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- SAF-T-Liner C2134 campaigns
- C29 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner HDX81 campaigns
- FS-6513 campaigns
- MVP EF16 campaigns
- Minotour61 campaigns
- HDX26 campaigns
- EF3 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner EFX42 campaigns
- Transit Liner ER3 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner EF8 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner MVP-EF6 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner C2 Jouley15 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner FS654 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner MVP-ER4 campaigns
- HDX EF2 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner HDX28 campaigns
- Minotour SRW3 campaigns
- TL-9603 campaigns
- Vista3 campaigns
- FS652 campaigns
Thomas Built Buses: all 22 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 SAF-T-Liner ER: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/thomas-built-buses/saf-t-liner-er/. 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
- 30 Sep 2026
- Complaint file through
- 30 Sep 2026
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- FREIGHTLINER CORPORATION
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 SAF-T-Liner ER model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2002 with 5, 2001 with 4, 2000 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER model year has the most complaints?
- The 2000 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 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner ER name?
- Structure: 1 component mention. Seats: 1 component mention.