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Volvo trucks

Official notice

8 Jul 2014

Last checked

8 Jul 2014

Medium riskHealth Canada

An official Health Canada notice concerns Volvo trucks. On certain model vehicles outfitted with enhanced cruise control and without side fairings, a programming error could result in the active braking feature of the enhanced cruise control to be disabled. As a result, the enhanced cruise control system may not automatically activate the brakes as designed. This could possibly result in a crash causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will update the software of the control unit. Published 2014-07-08.

What to do now

Please see corrective actions section below

Recall number

69986

Official notice

2014-07-08

The hazard

On certain model vehicles outfitted with enhanced cruise control and without side fairings, a programming error could result in the active braking feature of the enhanced cruise control to be disabled. As a result, the enhanced cruise control system may not automatically activate the brakes as designed. This could possibly result in a crash causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will update the software of the control unit.

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Recall Numbers

69986

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Affected products

Product 1

Year: 2012, Make: VOLVO, Model: VNL

Product 2

Year: 2013, Make: VOLVO, Model: VNL

Product 3

Year: 2014, Make: VOLVO, Model: VNL

Risk / hazard

On certain model vehicles outfitted with enhanced cruise control and without side fairings, a programming error could result in the active braking feature of the enhanced cruise control to be disabled. As a result, the enhanced cruise control system may not automatically activate the brakes as designed. This could possibly result in a crash causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will update the software of the control unit.

Where it was sold

The source does not list specific retailers. See the official notice for where affected products were sold.

Location 1

CA · Canada

Affected area 1

CA · Canada

Company & contacts

Brand

Manufacturer

Not provided

Phone

Not provided

Brand: Volvo.

Source & status

Source

Health Canada

Tier

official

Category

VEHICLES

App estimate

medium

Recall details

Recall number

69986

Source tier

official

Documents, notices & source

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