23E045 – Tire Pressure Regulation System Failure – SAF-Holland Tire Pilot Plus-Electronic Regulator Control Unit

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June 9, 2023 NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 23E045000

Tire Pressure Regulation System Failure

Tire pressure loss while driving can cause a loss of stability and control or tire tread separation, increasing the risk of a crash.

 

NHTSA Campaign Number: 23E045

Manufacturer SAF-Holland

Components TIRES

Potential Number of Units Affected 4,868

 

Summary

SAF-Holland is recalling certain Tire Pilot Plus-Electronic Regulator Control Unit assemblies. All 8 tires may experience a loss of tire pressure while driving faster than 45 mph.

 

Remedy

As an interim action, SAF-Holland will instruct owners to disable the Tire Pilot Plus system. The final remedy is currently under development. Interim owner letters were mailed July 10, 2023. Once a remedy has been established a second letter will be mailed. Owners may contact SAF-Holland customer service at 1-231-777-4302 or 1-231-777-4369.

 

Notes

Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.

 


Please be reminded of the following requirements:

You are required to submit a draft owner notification letter to this office no less than five days prior to mailing it to the customers. Also, copies of all notices, bulletins, dealer notifications, and other communications that relate to this recall, including a copy of the final owner notification letter and any subsequent owner follow-up notification letter(s), are required to be submitted to this office no later than 5 days after they are originally sent (if they are sent to more than one manufacturer, distributor, dealer, or purchaser/owner).

Please be reminded that under 49 U.S.C. § 30112(a)(3), it is illegal for a manufacturer, to sell, offer for sale, import, or introduce or deliver into interstate commerce, a motor vehicle or item of motor vehicle equipment that contains a safety defect once the manufacturer has notified NHTSA about that safety defect. This prohibition does not apply once the motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment has been remedied according to the manufacturer’s instructions.

As stated in 49 U.S.C. § 30118(f), submission of eight consecutive quarterly reports followed by three annual reports is required. As described in 573.7, submission of the first of eight consecutive quarterly status reports is required within one month after the close of the calendar quarter in which notification to purchasers occurs. Therefore, the first quarterly report will be due on, or before, 30 days after the close of the calendar quarter. The first of three consecutive annual status reports will be due on, or before, 1 year after the eighth quarterly report was submitted.

 


Service Bulletin – June 2023

Tire Pilot Plus™ (TPP) Inflation System

Tire Pilot Plus Safety Concern

Tire Pilot Plus (TPP) system produced on trailers after November 2022 with the electronic regulator assembly have been determined under specific conditions to slowly deflate the trailer tires.

The following instructions provide the necessary information for identifying and disabling the Tire Pilot Plus system. It is required to disable the Tire Pilot Plus system until troubleshooting and root cause determination work is complete. Service repair kit SRK-951 (Part Number – 48100817) is available for this procedure and the parts within the kit are commercially available as shown below.  The kit includes nine 1/4 NPT pipe plugs and eight valve stem caps.

 

Tire Pilot Plus Inspection and  Disable Process

INSPECTION:

  1. Check the trailer build date on the VIN tag. If it was manufactured November 2022 or later, the trailer could be in the target group, but needs to be confirmed to have the electronic regulator assembly installed.
  2. Figure 1 illustrates the new electronic regulator that will need to be disabled. Location is on the front crossmember for a sliding suspension.
  3. Before performing any maintenance on the trailer, set the parking brake and block the tires.

Failure to set the parking brake and chock the tires prior to beginning maintenance could allow the vehicle movement which, if not avoided, could result in death or serious injury.

 

TPP Inspection and Disable Process

DISABLE:

  1. If determined to have an electronic regulator assembly, isolate the trailer air tank from its air supply. Drain the air from the trailer air tank.
  2. Loosen and remove the tire hoses by hand starting at the hubcap fitting (Figure 2). Tire hoses should be disposed.
  3. Remove the tire hose fitting from the hubcap using a 15mm or 9/16″ deep well socket. (Figure 3).
  4. Install a valve stem cap on the tire valve stem (Figure 4).
  5. Install the 1/4 NPT pipe plug in the hubcaps. Install hand tight plus 2 turns or 25-30 lb-in (Figure 5).
  6. Disconnect the air line from the PPV as illustrated (Figure 6).

 

TPP Inspection and Disable Process

  1. Remove the 90 degree push to connect fitting and install Figure 7 a 1/4″ pipe plug hand tight plus 2 turns or 25-30 lb-in as illustrated (Figure 7).
  2. Reinstall the 90 degree push to connect fitting to the air line and coil up and secure the air line back to the slider subframe or another secured air line with zip ties.
  3. Re-tighten the trai ler air tank drain.
  4. Verify steps 2 through 9 are completed per instructions.

NOTE: DO NOT disconnect the electrical connection to the electronic regulator. Open electrical connectors will corrode, collect contamination and cause performance issues when the system  is re-activated.

For this procedure SAF-HOLLAND will reimburse 1/2 hour of labor per trailer. Once the procedure is done, you will need  to supply:

to SAF-HOLLAND warranty at service@safholland.com for labor reimbursement.

If other warrantable issues are found during the disabling of the TPP electronic regulator, a separate claim must be filed for those items.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. SAF-HOLLAND is committed to serving our customers with quality products. Once a permanent corrective action is developed, further instructions will be available.

SAF-HOLLAND USA, Inc. · 888.396.6501 · Fax 800.356.3929

SAF-HOLLAND  Canada Limited · 519.537.3494 · Fax 800.565.7753 Western Canada · 604.574.7491 · Fax 604.574.0244 SAF-HOLLAND Mexico · +(52) 55.5362.8743 · Fax  +(52) 55.5362.8743 www.safholland.us

 


Chronology :

The first warranty claim reported a failure date of 27APR23. 11 additional warranty claims have been received for failures through 24MAY23. A separate report from one customer reported an additional 8 failures that were detected before the trailer went into service. On 02JUN23, SAF-HOLLAND determined that a safety defect exists.

 


1 Affected Product

Equipment

BRAND PART NO. PRODUCTION DATES
SAF-HOLLAND TIRE PILOT PLUS

 


6 Associated Documents

Defect Notice 573 Report

RCLRPT-23E045-2871.PDF 214.177KB

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Recall Acknowledgement

RCAK-23E045-8660.pdf 647.509KB

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Remedy Instructions and TSB

RCRIT-23E045-8612.pdf 3841.793KB

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ISSUED Interim Owner Notification Letter(Part 577)

RIONL-23E045-3352.pdf 3821.627KB

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Recall 573 Report – 9/6/2023

RCLRPT-23E045-7816.PDF 214.247KB

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Recall 573 Report – 9/8/2023

RCLRPT-23E045-1793.PDF 214.327KB

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Latest Recalls Documents

For the Latest and Most Recent Recalls Information Visit the link below…

https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/acms/cs/documentList.xhtml?docId=23E045&docType=RCL

 


 

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