Service brakes, hydraulic: foundation components: hoses, lines/piping, and fittings (Collins)
Vehicle recall 85V-144. NHTSA received COLLINS INDUSTRIES,INC.’s report on Nov 4, 1985.
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The short answer
NHTSA received COLLINS INDUSTRIES,INC.’s report on Nov 4, 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.
THE REAR HYDRAULIC BRAKE LINE ON THE VEHICLE’S RIGHT SIDE MAY COME IN CONTACT WITH THE SUPPORTING STRUCTURE OF THE STEPWELL.
THE CLEARENCE BETWEEN THE STEPWELL AND THE BRAKE LINE MOUNTED ON THE FRAMERAIL IS NOT SUFFICIENT.
IF THE STEPWELL WERE TO TOUCH THE BRAKE LINE, DAMAGE TO THE BRAKE LINE COULD RESULT WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME.
CONSEQUENCE OF DEFECT: IF THE REAR HYDRAULIC BRAKE LINE WERE TO BE CRIMPED, RESPONSE OF THE REAR BREAKS WOULD BE SLOWED DOWN, THUS AFFECTING STOPPING TIMES.
IF THE REAR HYDRAULIC LINE WAS TO BE SPLIT OPEN, LOSS OF FLUID WOULD RESULT AND PERFORMANCE OF THE ENTIRE BRAKING SYSTEM WOULD BE DEGRADED.
OPERATION OF A VEHICLE WITH DAMAGED BRAKE LINES COULD LEAD TO SITUATIONS WHERE, IN PANIC STOP, A VEHICLE CRASH COULD RESULT.
THIS COULD OCCUR WITHOUT PRIOR WARNING.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Service brakes, hydraulic: foundation components: hoses, lines/piping, and fittings.
What should you do?
REROUTE BRAKE LINES TO AVOID CONTACT WITH STEPWELL OR CHANGE DESIGN TO ALLOW CLEARANCE.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: SYSTEM: REAR HYDRAULIC BRAKE LINE/STEPWELL.VEHICLE DESCRIPTION: BUSES BUILT ON 14,500 LB GVWR; CP31432, GM CHASSIS, FLXETTE MODEL 123.
- Check a vehicle by its VIN at NHTSA: the recalls still open on it are listed there.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 31 vehicles potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Collins Collinsand 1985, before the model years listed here
Who is recalling it?
- Made by COLLINS INDUSTRIES,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.
- Whether one vehicle or seat has been fixed: only its maker, or NHTSA’s lookup with a VIN, can say.
- This recall names only model years before 2015, which have no pages here. Your VIN, at NHTSA, says which recalls are open on a vehicle.
- 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.