Ricon 5500
Model 5500 made by Ricon got 1 investigation as well as 1 recall. The car had one investigation (equipment adaptive). There was one recall concerning equipment adaptive .
Model 9999
Recalls
| Campaign | Manufacturer | Manufacturing date | Type | # of units affected | Date Owner notified Mfg | Recall Initiated by | Manufacturers of recalled vehicles/products | Report Recieved Date | Record Creation Date | Regulation Part Number | FMVSS Number | |||||
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| EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE | ||||||||||||||||
| 06E085000 | VANTAGE MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL, LLC | from 06/12/2005 to 07/01/2005 | E (Equipment) | 98 | 05/09/2006 | ODI | VANTAGE MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL, LLC | 10/17/2006 | 10/18/2006 | 571 | 403 | |||||
| Defect Summary | Certain vmi/ricon 1200, 2000, and 5500 series wheelchair lifts manufactured between june 12 and july 1, 2005, installed as original equipment on certain speciality vehicles. the vertical support arms were improperly welded which fails to comply with federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 403, platform lift systems for motor vehicles. | |||||||||||||||
| Consequence Summary | In the event this condition occurs during passenger operations it may not be possible to close the lift door causing the vehicle interlocks to remain engaged preventing movement of the vehicle or the ability to load or unload passengers with disabilities from the vehicle. | |||||||||||||||
| Corrective Summary | Vmi will notify owners and replace both vertical arms even if only one arm is cracked. the recall began on may 6, 2006. owners may contact vmi's technical support department at 800-348-8267. | |||||||||||||||
| Notes | Customers may contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty: 1-800-424-9153); or go to http://www.safercar.gov. | |||||||||||||||
Investigations
| NHTSA ID | Manufacturer | Date open | Date close | Subject | Recall campaign | |
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| EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE | ||||||
| PE08022 | VANTAGE MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL, LLC | 03/26/2008 | 07/29/2008 | WHEELCHAIR LIFT ARM FRACTURES | ||
| The office of defects investigation has received one fleet complaint identifying 33 alleged failures on the subject wheelchair lifts. the alleged failures have occurred on school buses in two alaskan school districts.these allegations describe cracks developing on the lifts' vertical support arms at a pinned joint where a horizontal arm interfaces with the vertical arm.the lifts are used to raise wheelchairs from the street level to allow entry into the school bus.these bent arms may cause three possible safety concerns.first, the bent arms may prevent an inboard bridge from laying flat and thus prevent a wheel chair from loading the lift in an emergency.second, bent arms may cause the anti-stow interlock switch to become out of adjustment possibly allowing the lift to start moving to the stowed position while a chair is still on the platform.third, the bent arms may also create a situation where the requirements of fmvss 403 - s6.10.2.3 are no longer met.ricon feels that the bent arms are not a safety concern because the operator will see that the lift is damaged before a passenger is loaded onto the bus.if the driver sees that the lift is damaged, they should not load a passenger that would then need to be unloaded in an emergency.this pe has been upgraded to an engineering analysis (ea) to determine what causes the arms to fail, if the arms can fail while the lift is in a stowed position, and if a passenger can be loaded while the lift is in a failed condition. | ||||||