Villa Seats

Villa is recalling about 40 vehicles over a problem with the seats. The purpose of this standard is to establish requirements for seats, their attachment assemblies and their installation to minimize the possibility of their failure.

Campaign
07E079000
Manufacturer
VILLA INTERNATIONAL
Reported
21 September 2007
Vehicles
40
Built between
Not published
Models
1
Recall type
Equipment
Initiated by
Manufacturer
Owners notified
Not yet
Repaired
Not reported
Unrepaired
Not reported

Does this affect my vehicle?

The manufacturer did not publish a build-date range for this recall, so the model and year list below is the only way to tell whether your vehicle is covered.

  • Villa AIR Ride Driver Seat

What the defect is

Certain villa air ride driver seats built since july 2005 with the V2500 or V2000 iss adnik/villa frame installed as original equipment on certain recreational vehicles. The side rail on the lower air suspension can fail to conform to meet the full requirement of federal motor vehicle safety no. 207, seating systems.

What could happen

The purpose of this standard is to establish requirements for seats, their attachment assemblies and their installation to minimize the possibility of their failure.

What gets fixed

VILLA IS WORKING WITH THE VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS TO REPAIR THE AFFECTED SEATS. THE REMEDY AND NOTIFICATION SCHEDULE FOR THIS RECALL HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED.

Timeline

  1. Recall reported to NHTSA21 September 2007

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 21 September 2007.

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.

Official source

Recalling manufacturer
VILLA INTERNATIONAL
Safety standard
FMVSS 207
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.

Same component

Same brand