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Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 81 recall campaigns for the Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX, model years 2002 to 2026. NHTSA has 5 complaints on file for this model line. 24 of the 25 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. 20021
  2. 20035
  3. 20045
  4. 20055
  5. 20069
  6. 200710
  7. 200814
  8. 200914
  9. 201016
  10. 201123
  11. 201219
  12. 201323
  13. 201430
  14. 201531
  15. 201629
  16. 201732
  17. 201826
  18. 201921
  19. 202018
  20. 202116
  21. 202211
  22. 20238
  23. 20242
  24. 20253
  25. 20263
Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX300%3,495
2025 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX300%2,994
2024 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX200%2,895
2023 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX800%26,725
2022 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX1100%54,477
2021 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX1600%65,305
2020 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX1800%128,766
2019 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX211500%142,085
2018 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX2600%139,142
2017 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX3200%166,238
2016 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX2900%163,316
2015 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX3100%160,880
2014 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX3000%160,275
2013 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX2300%179,353
2012 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX1900%162,117
2011 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX2300%172,361
2010 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX1600%135,800
2009 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX141500%126,821
2008 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX1400%201,094
2007 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX1000%193,928
2006 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX91500%195,364
2005 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX500%184,083
2004 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX521000%184,083
2003 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX500%184,083
2002 Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX NHTSA page100%606

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

10 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.

Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Air3003
Wheels3003
Steering2002
Electrical System1001
Power Train1001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 11 campaigns.
Complaints about the Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Thomas Built Buses: all 22 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/thomas-built-buses/saf-t-liner-hdx/. 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
Daimler Trucks North America 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 SAF-T-Liner HDX model years have the most recall campaigns?
2017 with 32, 2015 with 31, 2014 with 30. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX model year has the most complaints?
The 2004 model year, with 2 of the 5 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 HDX name?
Service Brakes, Air: 3 component mentions. Wheels: 3 component mentions. Steering: 2 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Thomas Built Buses SAF-T-Liner HDX?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.