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Blue Bird Mini Bird

Every Blue Bird Mini Bird model year on file, 1977 to 2006. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years21 involved a crash, fire, injury or death

Model years201977 to 2006

Recall campaigns5Distinct campaigns listing it

Service bulletins21Summed across model years

By model year

The 2004 model year drew the most complaints, 1, 50% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.

Components

Speed control leads the Blue Bird Mini Bird complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Speed control

Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.

Model years

The record for each Blue Bird Mini Bird model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

Blue Bird Mini Bird by model year
Year	Body	Complaints	Severity index	Peer index	Recalls	Investigations	Bulletins
2006	Not decoded	1	0.0	100	2	0	3
2005	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	0	2
2004	Other	1	100.0	33	2	0	2
2003	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	0	2
2002	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	0	2
1999	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	0	1
1998	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	0	1
1997	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	0	1
1996	Not decoded	0	None	None	3	0	1
1995	Not decoded	0	None	None	3	0	1
1994	Not decoded	0	None	None	3	0	1
1993	Not decoded	0	None	None	3	0	1
1992	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	0	1
1991	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	0	1
1990	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	1	1
1989	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	0	0
1988	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	0	0
1987	Not decoded	0	None	None	1	0	0
1978	Not decoded	0	None	None	1	0	0
1977	Not decoded	0	None	None	1	0	0

Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.

Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Blue Bird Mini Bird

05V-251 May 20, 2005
Certain blue bird 2002 through 2006 my all american, conventional, minibird, microbird, vision, and tc2000 school buses originally sold in or…
Other or unknown · 3,121 vehicles
05V-239 May 20, 2005
Certain school buses originally sold in or currently registered in the following states: alaska, colorado, connecticut, delaware, idaho, illinois,…
Other or unknown · 8,894 vehicles
00V-219 Aug 17, 2000
Vehicle description: school buses
Structure · 26k vehicles
99V-018 Jun 15, 1999
Vehicle description: school buses
Seats · 41k vehicles
96V-073 May 3, 1996
Passenger's clothing can unknowingly become caught in the forward handrails at bus doors when exiting the bus
Structure · 18k vehicles

Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.