The defect
Duruxx LLC (Duruxx) is recalling certain 2015-2016 DRX2 Low-Speed vehicles. The affected vehicles can exceed the 40 km/h speed allowed under the "Low Speed Vehicle" classification. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 500, "Low Speed Vehicles."
The risk
If the vehicles can exceed the allowed speed, it can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Duruxx will notify owners, and dealers will adjust the throttle body to limit the maximum speed, free of charge. The recall began on September 7, 2017.
NHTSA's own wording · initiated by OVSC
Vehicles covered
| Model | Model years |
|---|---|
| Duruxx DRX2 | 2015, 2016 |
Components: VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
Model years in this recall
NHTSA complaints and the number of recall campaigns for each model year this recall covers.
| Model | Year | Complaints | Recalls |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duruxx DRX2 | 2015 | 0 | 1 |
| Duruxx DRX2 | 2016 | 0 | 1 |
Other vehicle speed control recalls in 2017
5 of the 810 recall campaigns reported to NHTSA in 2017 concerned the vehicle speed control.
| 17V568000 14 Sept 2017 | Volvo Bus Corporation |
| 17V367000 5 Jun 2017 | Vactor Manufacturing |
| 17V324000 17 May 2017 | Isuzu Technical Center of America, Inc. |
| 17V323000 16 May 2017 | Nova Bus |
NHTSA recalls (public domain) · all recalls of 2017