Exterior lighting: turn signal: flasher unit (Allied)
Vehicle equipment recall 85E-017. NHTSA received ALLIED ACESS & AUTO PARTS’s report on Apr 26, 1985.
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The short answer
NHTSA received ALLIED ACESS & AUTO PARTS’s report on Apr 26, 1985. 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.
FLASHER UNITS FAIL TO MEET REQUIREMENT OF FMVSS NO.108, FOR DURABILITY, STARTING TIME AND FLASH RATE.
CONSEQUENCE OF DEFECT: THIS RESULTS IN NO TURN SIGNAL, TURN SIGNAL CONTINUOUSLY ON, OR RAPID SIGNAL RATE.
FAILURE TO PROPERLY SIGNAL DIRECTION OF VEHICLE TO TRAFFIC COULD RESULT IN AN ACCIDENT.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Exterior lighting: turn signal: flasher unit.
What should you do?
REFUND OF PURCHASE PRICE TO CONSUMERS UPON RETURN OF FLASHER UNITS.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE CATEGORY: AFTERMARKET ALL TYPES OF VEHICLESSYSTEM: ELECTRICAL/SIGNAL FLASHERS, 536BP MAGNUM.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 50,000 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Allied AlliedNHTSA gives no dates made
Who is recalling it?
- Made by ALLIED ACESS & AUTO PARTS.
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.