Startrans Candidate Recalls & Complaints by Model Year
NHTSA lists 10 safety recalls and 0 owner complaints across 11 model years of the Startrans Candidate (2004–2014).
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All Startrans Candidate recalls (10)
Every NHTSA safety campaign that lists a Startrans Candidate, most recent first, with the model years each one covers.
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Equipment adaptive/mobility
Supreme Corporation (Supreme) is recalling certain model year 2008-2014 Startrans Activity Bus, Azure Hybrid, Candidate, Senator, Senator HD, Senator II, President, President S2, Sentinel Van, and Trolley shuttle buses manufactured May 9, 2008, to August 9, 2014, equipped with certain model S2005, S2010, S5005, S5010, S5505, and S5510…
Remedy: Supreme will notify owners and advise them to contact Ricon, and Ricon dealers will inspect the link arms for damage or for displaced bearings. The platform will be inspected for cracks. Any damaged parts will be…
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Equipment adaptive/mobility
Supreme Corporation (Supreme) is recalling certain model year 2008-2014 Azure Hybrid, Candidate, Senator, Senator HD, Senator II, President, President S2, Sentinel, and Trolley shuttle buses manufactured May 9, 2008, to August 9, 2014, equipped with certain model S2005, S2010, S5005, S5010, S5505, and S5510 wheelchair lifts manufactured…
Remedy: Supreme will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the link arms for damage or for displaced bearings. The platform will be inspected for cracks. Any damaged parts will be replaced, free of charge. The recall began…
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Equipment adaptive/mobility
Supreme Corporation (Supreme) is recalling certain model year 2006-2014 Senator, Senator II, Candidate, Candidate II, Senator HD, and Sentinel transit buses manufactured January 2, 2006, to April 30, 2014, equipped with certain model S2005, S2010, S5005, S5010, S5505, and S5510 wheelchair lifts manufactured by Ricon Corporation after…
Remedy: Supreme will notify owners to take buses to a Ricon dealer or service center who will install supplemental platform support bumpers. Any platform that has already started cracking will be replaced, free of charge. The…
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Equipment adaptive/mobility
Supreme Corporation (Supreme) is recalling certain model year 2006-2012 Startrans Trolley, Sentinel, Senator HD, Senator, Candidate, C2, S2, PS2, and President transit buses equipped with Ricon manufactured wheelchair lifts which have an optional armored pendant cable. The cable may have been installed such that it doesn't clear the…
Remedy: Ricon will be conducting this recall on behalf of Supreme. Ricon will notify the affected owners and will provide a supplemental cover kit and instructions, free of charge. The recall began on March 8, 2013. Owners may…
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Equipment adaptive/mobility
Startrans is recalling certain model year 2007-2010 transit buses equipped with braun century-2 and vista-2 wheelchair lifts. Over time and with frequent use, the roll stop latches on the outer barrier may become bent or misaligned. See the above list for the affected models.
Remedy: Startrans will notify owners, and the repairs will be performed by authorized braun dealers, free of charge. The safety recall began on june 7, 2012. Owners may contact startrans at 1-800-642-4889.
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Equipment
Startrans is recalling certain model year 2006 and 2007 candidate, candidate ii, senator hd, trolley, president, senator, and senator ii transit buses equipped with trans/air ta73 evaporators. The evaporator utilizes a power resistor to regulate blower speed. Should a short occur in the "low or medium speed" circuit while the blower is…
Remedy: Trans/air, in cooperation with startrans, will install a thermal shutdown device in series with the speed resistors. This service will be performed free of charge. The safety recall began on january 11, 2011. Owners…
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Equipment adaptive/mobility
Startrans bus is recalling certain model year 2007 through 2010 candidate, candidate ii, senator, senator hd, president, trolley, senator ii, and sentinal transit buses manufactured from december 2007 through december 18, 2009 and fitted with ricon public use lifts. The restraint belt on these lifts was designed to prevent the lift from…
Remedy: Startrans bus is working with ricon and ricon will be performing the remedy for this campaign. Please see ricon's defect report 09e-060. Ricon will provide customers with a warning decal and a dvd-based training aid.…
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Equipment adaptive/mobility
Startrans bus is recalling certain model year 2009 candidate, candidate ii, senator, senator hd, president, trolley, and senator ii transit buses manufactured from september 2007 through december 18, 2009, and fitted with certain ricon s series and k series l-model wheelchair lifts. Due to a problem in the software that controls the…
Remedy: Startrans bus will notify owners and the repairs will be performed by authorized ricon dealers free of charge. A software solution for this safety defect is under investigation. Until the software solution is…
Model years: 2009
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Equipment adaptive/mobility
Startrans is recalling 4,409 my 2004-2008 senator and candidate shuttle buses built on ford or chevrolet chassis and equipped with ricon platform style wheelchair lifts. These vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 404, "platform lift installations in motor vehicles." the threshold…
Remedy: Startrans is working with ricon to correct the wheelchair lifts free of charge (please see 07e095). Owners may contact ricon at 1-818-267-3000 or startrans at 877-258-1392.
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Equipment adaptive/mobility
Startrans is recalling 4,409 my 2004-2008 senator and candidate shuttle buses built on ford or chevrolet chassis and equipped with ricon platform style wheelchair lifts. These lifts fail to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 403, "platform lift systems for motor vehicles." the anti-stow interlock…
Remedy: Startrans is working with ricon to correct the wheelchair lifts free of charge (please see 07e097). Owners may contact ricon at 1-818-267-3000 or startrans at 877-258-1392.
Other Startrans models
- Azure Hybrid0 complaints
- C20 complaints
- Candidate II0 complaints
- Canidate0 complaints
- Canidate II0 complaints
- E-Lo0 complaints
- Mfasb0 complaints
- Mfsab0 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.