Winnebago Equipment Adaptive/Mobility

Winnebago is recalling about 4 vehicles over a problem with the equipment adaptive/mobility. Should the threshold warning system fail to operate, the lift user can fall from the vehicle and be seriously injured.

Campaign
07V575000
Manufacturer
WINNEBAGO INDUSTRIES, INC.
Reported
15 December 2007
Vehicles
4
Built between
Sep 2005 – Jan 2006
Models
1
Recall type
Vehicle
Initiated by
Manufacturer
Owners notified
Not yet
Repaired
Not reported
Unrepaired
Not reported

Does this affect my vehicle?

This recall covers vehicles built between September 2005 and January 2006. If yours was built outside that window, it is not part of this recall.

  • 2005-2006 Winnebago Special PurposeBuilt September 2005 to January 2006

What the defect is

Certain special purpose coaches equipped with braun platform lifts fail to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 404, "platform lift installations in motor vehicles." a passenger can approach the exposed lift doorway without the audible alarm alerting them of their proximity to the threshold.

What could happen

Should the threshold warning system fail to operate, the lift user can fall from the vehicle and be seriously injured.

What gets fixed

WINNEBAGO IS WORKING WITH BRAUN CORPORATION TO HAVE THE DOORWAY LIFT FIXED FREE OF CHARGE (PLEASE SEE 06E094).

Timeline

  1. Vehicles builtSeptember 2005 to January 2006
  2. Recall reported to NHTSA15 December 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 15 December 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.

Manufacturer contact

Owners may contact braun corporation at 1-800-946-7513.

Official source

Recalling manufacturer
WINNEBAGO INDUSTRIES, INC.
Safety standard
FMVSS 404
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

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