Vehicle report
Technical service bulletins are instructions a manufacturer sent its dealers about a known fault. They are not recalls and the work is usually not free, but they are the clearest signal of a problem the manufacturer already knows about.
SIL-3125
Altec Industries, Inc. has issued a customer satisfaction campaign as described in the Service Information Letter (SIL). Altec has updated the preventive maintenance procedures for the boom tip pin retaining plate on certain A Class and A Class Elevator model units built from June 1997 to November 2023.
SIL 785
Altec has discovered that affected units may not have a PTO request wire properly connected to the transmission control module. Without this wire installed, the chassis may not produce the hydraulic pressure required for proper PTO clutch pack engagement. Altec requires the unit to be inspected for the PTO request wire no later than the next periodic maintenance interval or 90 days from the receipt of the SIL, whichever comes first. If the inspection procedure in the SIL confirms that the PTO request wire is missing, order the PTO Request Wire Kit and install the kit no later than 6 months from the receipt of this SIL.
Complaint counts are reports filed with NHTSA, not failure rates. A common model collects more of them than a rare one that breaks more often.