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Potential Product Safety Issue
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Safety Bulletin

A recent furnace returned on a product report revealed an incomplete crimp between the leaving end of the heat exchanger tube and the vestibule panel. Our investigation revealed one heat exchanger crimping machine was involved with this problem. Therefore, the problem was restricted to one machine; we have limited this alert to 17” B cabinet width, and 21” C cabinet width, 80% efficiency, tubular heat exchanger furnaces only, produced in Wichita during May, June and July 2001 (WFKM, WGKM serial prefix). We are in the process of inspecting 100% of these products to verify the crimping process.

YORK has reported this issue to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

A MANDATORY INSPECTION OF ALL INSTALLED FURNACES WITHIN THE AFFECTED MODEL & SERIAL NUMBER RANGE OF UNITS, IS ALSO REQUIRED. Dealers who have received furnaces within the affected serial range are being notified via certified mailings, the affected serial numbers and recipients are being determined. If the crimp is defective, the furnace must be replaced and returned to the factory.


MODEL NUMBER FL8B08016UH12 G8T08016UHB11 L8T10020UHC11 L8T11520UHC11 P4HUC16N09201
SERIAL NUMBER RANGES WGKM007655-WGKM007659 WGKM007661-WGKM007709 WGKM012457-WGKM012506 WGKM018664-WGKM018668 WFKM032108-WFKM032157
          WGKM012322-WGKM012406
 
MODEL NUMBER P4HUC20N09201 P4HUB16N08001 G8D10020UHC11 L8T08016UHB11 P4HUC20N08001
SERIAL NUMBER RANGES WGKM018739-WGKM018913 WGKM030726-WGKM030923 WGKM007605-WGKM007619 WGKM007710-WGKM007739 WFKM032033-WFKM032107
          WGKM018466-WGKM018663
 
MODEL NUMBER P1DUC20L08001 P4HUB16N08001 P4HUC20N06401 P4HUC20N08001 P4HUB16L08001
SERIAL NUMBER RANGES WGKM007620-WGKM007629 WGKM012105-WGKM012321 WFKM020241-WFKM020290 WFKM020366-WFKM020415 WGKM012000-WGKM012104
      WFKM031824-WFKM031872   WGKM030646-WGKM030722
 
MODEL NUMBER P4HUB16N06401 P4HUB16L06401 P4HUC20L08001 P4HUB12N08001 P4HUC20N09201
SERIAL NUMBER RANGES WFKM003129-WFKM014912 WFKM016427-WFKM016526 WFKM02091-WFKM020365 WFKM003055-WFKM003128 WFKM020416-WFKM020465
  WFKM031608-WFKM031822 WFKM031458-WFKM031607 WFKM031873-WFKM032032 WFKM047734-WFKM047783 WFKM063106-WFKM063195
  WFKM056001-WFKM056450 WFKM047784-WFKM054043 WGKM018256-WGKM018455 WFKM020141-WFKM020240 WGKM018669-WGKM018738
  WFKM068950-WFKM069349 WFKM063721-WFKM064395 WGKM031478-WGKM031877 WGKM007550-WGKM007654  
  WGKM009491-WGKM009852 WGKM009291-WGKM009490   WGKM022174-WGKM022308  
  WGKM022833-WGKM023051 WGKM022319-WGKM022831      

Please contact your installing Heating & Air Conditioning Contractor
or YORK.
Call TOLL FREE 1-877-874-7378, Option 2 for Consumer Relations.