Back over prevention: warnings: external/pedestrian alert (Yamaguchi)
Vehicle equipment recall 84E-024. NHTSA received JOSEPH’s report on Oct 16, 1984.
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The short answer
NHTSA received JOSEPH’s report on Oct 16, 1984. 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.
BACK UP ALARM OPERATION IS NOT RELIABLE AND MAY NOT SOUND WHEN VEHICLE IS IN REVERSE.
ALSO, ALARM MAY STOP WORKING AFTER ONLY 150 HOURS OF CONTINUED USE INSTEAD OF 1,000 HOURS AS EXPECTED.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Back over prevention: warnings: external/pedestrian alert.
What should you do?
RETURN PRODUCT FOR FULL REPLACEMENT FREE OF CHARGE.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE CATEGORY: LIGHT AND MEDIUM TRUCKS, DUMP TRUCKS, MOTOR HOMES, CAMPERS,ELECTRIC FORKLIFTS, ETC. WITH BACK UP ALARMS.SYSTEM: LIGHTING AND COMMUNICATION; BACK UP ALARM.CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECT: VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS WILL NOT BE WARNED THAT ANEARBY VEHICLE IS MOVING IN REVERSE, WHICH MAY RESULT IN PERSONAL INJURY OR ANACCIDENT.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 6,177 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Yamaguchi YamaguchiNHTSA gives no dates made
Who is recalling it?
- Made by JOSEPH.
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.