# Service bulletin BS3453ER1

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10125050
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-12\-08
- Manufacturer's number: BS3453ER1
- Manufacturer's date: 2017\-11\-28
- NHTSA component: STRUCTURE

## NHTSA's summary

Bum rest shells cracking and anchor points may loosen with time and vibration

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10125050-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10125050-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Body and frame

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 to 2014 NOVA BUS LFS ARTIC
- 2016 NOVA BUS LFS ARTIC

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [2026228](/recalls/tc/2026228.md), 2026-05-12: Structure
- [2025080](/recalls/tc/2025080.md), 2025-02-17: Structure
- [2020271](/recalls/tc/2020271.md), 2020-06-17: Structure
- [20V354000](/recalls/nhtsa/20V354000.md), 2020-06-15: STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR:HINGE AND ATTACHMENTS; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE
- [2017240](/recalls/tc/2017240.md), 2017-05-03: Structure

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [BS5467E](/bulletins/10244198.md), 2023-10-17, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE; FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE. Potential presence of a gap may cause frame crack. Only to perform during a frame crack repair process near front bolt of joint \#2.
- [BS3667ER2](/bulletins/10180584.md), 2020-10-02, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE. Vertical beam might crack above front door, second post capping. Weld stiffening plates.
- [FT4944](/bulletins/10179144.md), 2020-09-01, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE. bolts in the rear canopy \(under the radiator\) are getting loose. The Canopy grid can not fall off the bus due to locking pins .
- [FT4869](/bulletins/10178048.md), 2020-08-06, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING; STRUCTURE. Coolant surge tank cover may rub on hose and clamps.
- [BS4864E](/bulletins/10177907.md), 2020-08-05, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE; POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION:FLOOR SHIFT ASSEMBLY. Floor damage around the drive shaft access panel
- [FT4644](/bulletins/10173779.md), 2020-04-13, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. Body corner panel shows cracks
- [FT4581](/bulletins/10164041.md), 2019-08-19, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR; VISIBILITY. Door mirror bracket loose destination sign panel cracking
- [FT4623](/bulletins/10162330.md), 2019-07-08, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE. Watch Your Step Decal Peeling
- [FT4451R1](/bulletins/10162320.md), 2019-07-08, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE. Paint peeling on all panels made of N64030\-28
- [FT4532](/bulletins/10159779.md), 2019-05-13, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR; EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY. Compartment Door Corrosion

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