Champion Bus Recalls & Complaints by Model Year

NHTSA lists 1 safety recall and 0 owner complaints across 3 model years of the Champion Bus (1997–1999).

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• 1997
• 1998
• 1999

All Champion Bus recalls (1)

Every NHTSA safety campaign that lists a Champion Bus, most recent first, with the model years each one covers.

1. Door (structure)

   NHTSA 02V059003 Reported March 13, 2002 181 vehicles potentially affected CHAMPION BUS, INC.

   On certain transit buses equipped with adhesively bonded aluminum bus door panels, due to an imperfect bonding of the door panel skin to the panel frame, environmental moisture may infiltrate regions of imperfect bonding and cause separation of the frame and door panel.

   Remedy: Vapor will notify customers to have their buses inspected and will install mechanical fasteners to attach the skins to the frame elements free of charge. Owners who do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable…

   Model years: 1997, 1998, 1999

Other Champion models

• Eurocoach4 complaints
• Challenger2 complaints
• Champion1 complaints
• Classic Sidecar1 complaints
• Contender1 complaints
• Cut-Away Chassis1 complaints
• Ez-Trans1 complaints
• International Low Floor1 complaints

Source: NHTSA recall and complaint databases and EPA fuel economy data, October 2026. Complaint counts are owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects. Recall counts are safety campaigns that list this model year; whether a particular car was already repaired depends on its VIN. How this data is compiled.