Hino Super Dolphin Profia Recall 1105570

In April 1999, Hino filed a statutory recall with Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), covering the Super Dolphin Profia. The filing affects 20,262 vehicles manufactured between January 17, 1987 and February 1998.

Overview

Filing in context

This filing is one of 8 Hino notifications from 1999 in this archive. For scale, 1,237 of the 4,890 filings in this archive report a larger number of affected vehicles; the vehicles involved here were manufactured over a span of about 11 years and 1 month.

Defect

Some coupling assemblies have a bracket that retains the trailer coupling with insufficient strength. Continued use in this condition may cause the bracket to crack and, in the worst case, fracture entirely, causing the trailer to separate from the tractor.

Corrective action

On all vehicles, replace the affected bracket with the corrected part.

Affected models & chassis ranges

This filing lists 57 type code(s). A vehicle is affected if its chassis number falls within one of the ranges below.

Original Japanese (MLIT source text)

Source & verification

This entry reproduces public data from Japan's MLIT recall registry. English text is jdmvin.com's own translation; always verify against the official source:

https://renrakuda.mlit.go.jp/renrakuda/ris-detail-car.html?class=recalldatacar&id=3000166

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