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Recalls 1
Service brakes, hydraulic: foundation components: disc
- What is wrong
- On certain school and transit buses built with bosch zero offset pin slide (zops) hydraulic disc brakes, the zops hydraulic disc brakes may experience calipers sticking in the applied position, which can result in excessive or abnormal heat generation at one or more of the brakes.
- Risk
- The combination of the following factors may collectively result in an unreasonable risk to motor vehicle safety: potential fire at a wheel end, high incident rates of stuck calipers, and evacuation and containment concerns relating to multiple passengers.
- Remedy
- International will notify its customers and repair the buses free of charge. The recall began october 29, 2004.
Recall number 03V062000 · Recall details
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Defect investigations
Overheating front and rear brakes
This investigation focused on international medium duty trucksand school bus chassis weighing up to 33,000 pounds, equipped with hydraulic brakes and built with the bosch zero offset pin slide (zops)brake system calipers.international used the zops calipers from april 1997 through june 2002.odi was concerned about reports of the brake calipers sticking in the applied position, resulting in excessive heat.as the investigation progressed, odi became aware of wheel end fires, some of which occurred on school buses.during the investigation odi obtained warranty data which was sorted and analyzed by vrtc test engineers and odi to gain an understanding of the magnitude of the problem.after a thorough warranty data analysis, related testing and document reviews, odi met with international, shared the data analysis and shortly afterwards, international agreed to a safety recall.further details are included on pages 2 - 4.
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Technical service bulletins for the 2002 International 3600 72
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Is the 2002 International 3600 reliable?
Owners have filed 0 complaints about the 2002 International 3600.
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How many recalls does the 2002 International 3600 have?
1 recall, covering service brakes, hydraulic.
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