Fuel system, gasoline: delivery: hoses, lines/piping, and fittings (Purolator)
Vehicle equipment recall 83E-005. NHTSA received PUROLATOR PRODUCTS, INC.’s report on Feb 8, 1983.
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The short answer
NHTSA received PUROLATOR PRODUCTS, INC.’s report on Feb 8, 1983. 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.
LABELLING OF THE FUEL FILTER IS INCORRECT AND RESULTS IN MISAPPLICATION OF THE AFTERMARKET PART.
PUROLATOR FCG-4 FUEL FILTER IS ERRONEOUSLY RECOMMENDED FOR HONDA VEHICLES, MODEL YEARS 1979 AND LATER ON THE PACKAGE, MASTER CATALOGUE, AND APPLICATION CHART.
THIS FILTER DOES NOT PROPERLY FIT THE VEHICLE HOSES.
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?
THE MANUFACTURER OF THE FILTERS INSTRUCTS DISTRIBUTORS AND RETAILERS TO RETURN ALL FILTERS IN MISLABELLED PACKAGES.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE CATEGORY: PASSENGER VEHICLES.SYSTEM: FUEL SYSTEMS.CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECT: MISAPPLICATION OF THE FILTER CAN CAUSE FUEL LEAKAGEWHICH COULD LEAD TO A FIRE AND PERSONAL INJURY.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 4,000 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Purolator PurolatorBuilt from Sep 1, 1981 to Feb 1, 1983
Who is recalling it?
- Made by PUROLATOR PRODUCTS, INC..
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.