Laclede Equipment

Laclede is recalling about 1,250 vehicles over a problem with the equipment. Should the chain break while the vehicle is in use, material or equipment which the chain is securing to the trailer can fall off the vehicle, possibly resulting in a vehicle crash.

Campaign
05E018000
Manufacturer
LACLEDE CHAIN MANUFACTURING
Reported
7 March 2005
Vehicles
1,250
Built between
Nov 2004 – Dec 2004
Models
1
Recall type
Equipment
Initiated by
Manufacturer
Owners notified
Not yet
Repaired
Not reported
Unrepaired
Not reported

Does this affect my vehicle?

This recall covers vehicles built between November 2004 and December 2004. If yours was built outside that window, it is not part of this recall.

  • Laclede PZE-077Built November 2004 to December 2004

What the defect is

Certain laclede grade 70 chains, assembly p/n PZE-077, manufactured between november 16 and december 27, 2004, and hallmarked with an L10 every six links. Laclede chain produces a cut piece of chain for transcript corporation to use as a flatbed trailer floor tie-down chain. The tie-down assembly can break while the vehicle is in use.

What could happen

Should the chain break while the vehicle is in use, material or equipment which the chain is securing to the trailer can fall off the vehicle, possibly resulting in a vehicle crash.

What gets fixed

LACLEDE WILL NOTIFY TRANSCRIPT CUSTOMERS AND REPLACE THE CHAINS FREE OF CHARGE. THE RECALL IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN DURING MARCH 2005.

Timeline

  1. Vehicles builtNovember 2004 to December 2004
  2. Recall reported to NHTSA7 March 2005

No owner-notification date has been published yet. Manufacturers normally write to registered owners within 60 days of reporting a recall.

Your rights

A safety recall repair is free. Under US federal law the manufacturer must fix a safety defect at no cost to you — no charge for parts, labor or diagnosis — whether or not you are the original owner. A dealer cannot charge you for recall work, and cannot require you to have bought the vehicle from them.

That entitlement is not unlimited. It applies where the vehicle was first sold less than 15 years before the recall was announced — 5 years for tires. Past that a manufacturer may still do the repair free of charge, and many do, but they are no longer obliged to. This recall was reported on 7 March 2005.

To arrange the repair, contact any franchised dealer for the brand. If a dealer refuses the work or tries to charge for it, you can report that to NHTSA at nhtsa.gov/recalls or on 1-888-327-4236.

Manufacturer contact

Owners may contact locality at 636-680-2320.

Official source

Recalling manufacturer
LACLEDE CHAIN MANUFACTURING
Recall initiated by
MFR

Everything on this page — the models listed, the build dates and the repair figures — comes from the manufacturer's filing to NHTSA and describes the vehicle line as a whole, not any individual car. Only the manufacturer can confirm whether a specific vehicle is affected, and whether its recall work has already been carried out. Check yours by VIN and read the official notice at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

Additional notes

Customers may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to http://www.safercar.gov.

Check your own vehicle

This page describes the recall, not any one car. To see which recalls cover a specific vehicle, search by make, model and year.

A VIN lookup here identifies your vehicle and shows recalls issued for that make, model and year. It cannot tell you what is still open on your individual car - only the manufacturer knows that. Search by VIN instead, or check your VIN at nhtsa.gov for whether a recall is still open on your individual car.

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