Fuel system, gasoline: delivery: hoses, lines/piping, and fittings (Fram)
Vehicle equipment recall 80E-008. NHTSA received FRAM’s report on Apr 9, 1980.
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The short answer
NHTSA received FRAM’s report on Apr 9, 1980. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 20, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
The notice gives no hazard in a field of its own.
HOSES THAT WERE PACKAGED WITH GAS FILTERS HAVE BEEN FOUND TO DETERIORATE AND SWELL WHEN EXPOSED TO GASOLINE, CAUSING THE FILTERS TO LEAK.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Fuel system, gasoline: delivery: hoses, lines/piping, and fittings.
What should you do?
DEFECTIVE FILTER UNITS WILL BE REPLACED AT NO COST TO OWNER.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE CATEGORY: PASSENGER AND MULTI-PURPOSE PASSENGER VEHICLES.SYSTEM: FUEL; FRAM; FUEL FILTER, HOSES.CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECT: LEAKING FUEL, IN COMBINATION WITH AN IGNITION SOURCE,COULD RESULT IN A VEHICLE FIRE AND PERSONAL INJURY.NOTE: THE DRIVER”S FIRST INDICATION OF A PROBLEM WILL BE VISIBLE LEAKAGE OFGASOLINE FROM THE HOSE. THE OWNER IS ADVISED TO RETURN ANY INSTALLED G22AGASOLINE FILTER WITH A DATE CODE OF F1P OR F2P.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 31,200 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Fram FramBuilt from Feb 1, 1980 to Mar 1, 1980
Who is recalling it?
- Made by FRAM.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Which ones, by part or lot: the recall’s report on NHTSA’s site gives them where the maker did; this file gives part numbers only where its maker listed them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file before 2010 (FLAT_RCL_PRE_2010).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
Vehicle, car seat, tire and vehicle equipment recalls, owner complaints and crash ratings are from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Copied on Oct 20, 2026.