Equipment: electrical: anti-theft devices (Applied Power)
Vehicle equipment recall 80E-018. NHTSA received APPLIED’s report on Aug 25, 1980.
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The short answer
NHTSA received APPLIED’s report on Aug 25, 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.
AN ADHESIVE CLIP WHICH HOLDS THE WIRE BUNDLE WITHIN THE CHARGER TO THE INTERIOR OF THE CHARGER COULD FAIL.
UNDER CONDITIONS OF EXTREME USE, A SHORT BETWEEN THE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CIRCUITS OF THE CHARGER COULD RESULT.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Equipment: electrical: anti-theft devices.
What should you do?
A TIE WILL BE INSERTED TO FASTEN THE WIRE BUNDLE TO THE METER BRACKET AND A CIRCUIT BREAKER WILL BE INSTALLED IN THE SECONDARY CIRCUIT WITHOUT CHARGE TO OWNER.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE CATEGORY: PASSENGER VEHICLES.SYSTEM: ELECTRIC POWER ACCESSORIES; BATTERY CHARGER MODELS 39-100 AND 85-900.CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECT: IF THIS HAPPENS, 120 VOLTS WILL ENTER THE BATTERYCLAMPS AND ANY CONDUCTIVE METAL OBJECTS TO WHICH THE BATTERY CLAMPS MIGHT BEATTACHED. THIS WOULD PRESENT A POTENTIALLY FATAL SHOCK HAZARD.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 35,000 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Applied Power Applied PowerBuilt from Mar 1, 1978 to Mar 1, 1980
Who is recalling it?
- Made by APPLIED.
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).
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