Thomas SAF-T-Liner: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 25 recall campaigns for the Thomas SAF-T-Liner, model years 1977 to 2002. NHTSA has 5 complaints on file for this model line. 19 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.
- 19771
- 19781
- 19791
- 19802
- 19812
- 19823
- 19833
- 19843
- 19853
- 19863
- 19873
- 19885
- 19894
- 19905
- 19915
- 19927
- 199310
- 199413
- 199511
- 199610
- 19973
- 19980
- 20001
- 20012
- 20020
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 Thomas SAF-T-Liner NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 1000% | |
| 2001 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 2 | 1 | 500% | 854 |
| 2000 Thomas SAF-T-Liner NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 146 |
| 1998 Thomas SAF-T-Liner NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 500% | |
| 1997 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 3 | 0 | 0% | 11,451 |
| 1996 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 10 | 0 | 0% | 138,429 |
| 1995 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 11 | 1 | 500% | 138,816 |
| 1994 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 13 | 0 | 0% | 139,965 |
| 1993 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 10 | 0 | 0% | 162,304 |
| 1992 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 7 | 0 | 0% | 157,740 |
| 1991 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 5 | 0 | 0% | 154,473 |
| 1990 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 5 | 0 | 0% | 154,473 |
| 1989 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 4 | 0 | 0% | 129,903 |
| 1988 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 5 | 0 | 0% | 129,910 |
| 1987 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 3 | 0 | 0% | 121,025 |
| 1986 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 3 | 0 | 0% | 121,929 |
| 1985 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 3 | 0 | 0% | 121,929 |
| 1984 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 3 | 0 | 0% | 121,929 |
| 1983 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 3 | 0 | 0% | 121,929 |
| 1982 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 3 | 0 | 0% | 121,929 |
| 1981 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 2 | 0 | 0% | 120,987 |
| 1980 Thomas SAF-T-Liner | 2 | 0 | 0% | 120,987 |
| 1979 Thomas SAF-T-Liner NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 120,371 |
| 1978 Thomas SAF-T-Liner NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 120,371 |
| 1977 Thomas SAF-T-Liner NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 120,371 |
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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Air Bags | 285.7 | 2 |
| Structure | 142.9 | 1 |
| Steering | 142.9 | 1 |
| Latches/Locks/Linkages | 142.9 | 1 |
| Service Brakes, Air | 142.9 | 1 |
| Power Train | 142.9 | 1 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- School Bus22 campaigns
- Thomas12 campaigns
- MVP EF24 campaigns
- Bus14 campaigns
- C23 campaigns
- FS-652 campaigns
- Conventional27 campaigns
- MVP ER20 campaigns
- Vista16 campaigns
- ER6 campaigns
- ER Model4 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner HD3 campaigns
- Minotour21 campaigns
- MVP18 campaigns
- ER Transit10 campaigns
- All Star5 campaigns
- Mighty Mite3 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner Conventional6 campaigns
- Transit Liner5 campaigns
- Citiliner4 campaigns
- HDX4 campaigns
- TL9603 campaigns
- CL9602 campaigns
- SAF-T-Liner C25 campaigns
- Transit Liner ER4 campaigns
- Transit Liner HD2 campaigns
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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 SAF-T-Liner: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/thomas/saf-t-liner/. 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
- THOMAS BUILT BUSES, 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 Thomas SAF-T-Liner model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1994 with 13, 1995 with 11, 1996 with 10. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Thomas SAF-T-Liner model year has the most complaints?
- The 2002 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 SAF-T-Liner name?
- Air Bags: 2 component mentions. Structure: 1 component mention. Steering: 1 component mention.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Thomas SAF-T-Liner?
- 5 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.