Coachmen Equipment: Recreational Vehicle/Trailer

Coachmen is recalling about 365 vehicles over a problem with the equipment. This could present a risk of a fire.

Campaign
11V053000
Manufacturer
COACHMEN RV COMPANY, LLC
Reported
21 January 2011
Vehicles
365
Built between
Not published
Models
1
Recall type
Vehicle
Initiated by
Manufacturer
Owners notified
20 January 2011
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.

  • 2010-2011 Coachmen Brookstone

What the defect is

Coachmen is recalling certain model year 2010-2011 brookstone trailers equipped with dometic conventional microwave oven. The conventional microwave oven may not have been installed according to the manufacturers installation instructions. The blower unit should have been rotated to 180 degrees to direct the exhaust out of the front of the conventional oven, prior to installing the appliance.

What could happen

This could present a risk of a fire.

What gets fixed

DEALERS WILL INSPECT THE CONVENTIONAL MICROWAVE OVEN AND IF THE DEFECT IS PRESENT, THE BLOWER TUBE WILL BE ROTATED TO COMPLY WITH THE MANUFACTURERS INSTRUCTIONS. THIS SERVICE WILL BE PERFORMED FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN DURING FEBRUARY 2011.

Timeline

  1. Recall reported to NHTSA21 January 2011
  2. Owners notified20 January 2011

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 January 2011.

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 coachmen at 574-825-8360.

Official source

Recalling manufacturer
COACHMEN RV COMPANY, LLC
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

Owners 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 <a href=http://www.safercar.gov>http://www.safercar.gov</a> .

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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