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Thomas FS-65

Every Thomas FS-65 model year on file, 2004 to 2005. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years31 involved a crash, fire, injury or death

Model years22004 to 2005

Recall campaigns3Distinct campaigns listing it

Service bulletins3Summed across model years

By model year

The 2005 model year drew the most complaints, 2, 67% 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

Lighting leads the Thomas FS-65 complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Lighting

Electrical system

Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.

Model years

The record for each Thomas FS-65 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.

Thomas FS-65 by model year
Year	Body	Complaints	Severity index	Peer index	Recalls	Investigations	Bulletins
2005	Bus	2	0.0	200	2	1	2
2004	Bus	1	100.0	100	2	1	1

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

Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Thomas FS-65

05V-467 Oct 5, 2005
Certain 2005 thomas built fs-65 and c-2 school buses and 2005 freightliner argosy, columbia, century st, and m2 business class trucks manufactured…
Suspension · 1,100 vehicles
05V-426 Sep 20, 2005
Certain freightliner custom chassis fs-65 school bus chassis and fb-65 shuttle bus chassis equipped with caterpillar c7 engines and revised…
Brakes · 1,630 vehicles
04T-023 Dec 22, 2004
Certain michelin xde commercial truck tires, size 10r22.5 lrg and lrf for use on freightliner school and transit buses
Tires · 4,000 vehicles

Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.