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2004 4-Star Trailers Horse Trailer Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Sep 11, 2009
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Feb 26, 2007

What this page shows

Our database holds 3 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2004 4-Star Trailers Horse Trailer. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Tires & wheels
Filed Sep 11, 2009

BLOW OUT OF UNIROYAL LT235 85R16 TIRES ON HORSE TRAILER WITH NO SIGNS OF WEAR. SECOND BLOW OUT WAS THIS YEAR. I FEEL THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THIS TIRE AS THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM. TIRES WERE INFLATED PROPERLY. REPLACED ALL 4 TIRES WITH A DIFFERENT BRAND. *TR

NHTSA ID
10283652
Incident
Apr 23, 2008
Tires & wheels
Filed Aug 7, 2008

NEW TIRES PURCHASED ON OCTOBER 5, 2007 COMPLETELY FAILED LESS THAN 7 MONTHS LATER IN MAY 2008. YOUR SYSTEM DOES NOT HAVE THE OPTION OF SELECTING THE CORRECT TIRE MANUFACTURER SO I ENTERED THE INFORMATION AS CLOSE TO THE CORRECT DATA AS POSSIBLE. PARKHOUSE TIRE, INC. PURCHASED THE TIRES AND I DO NOT KNOW THE MFG. *TR

NHTSA ID
10237354
Incident
May 17, 2008
Suspension
Filed Feb 26, 2007

TL*- THE CONTACT TOOK HIS 2004 KIEFER BUILT HORSE TRAILER TO DEALER TO GET A TIRE REPLACEMENT AND WAS INFORMED THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE AXLE. AFTER THE TIRE WAS REPLACED HE TOOK THE VEHICLE TO GRAND CHAMPION AND THEY INFORMED HIM THAT THE TIRE NEEDED BALANCING. GRAND CHAMPION TOLD THE CONTACT THAT THE TIRE WAS BALANCED WHEN THE TIRE COMPANY REPLACED THE TIRE. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE IN ABOUT 4-6 MONTHS LATER AND WAS INFORMED THAT THE SAME TIRE WAS WEARING AGAIN. HE THEN TOOK THE VEHICLE BACK TO GRAND CHAMPION , AND WAS INFORMED THAT THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT INFORMED GRAND CHAMPION THAT THE TIRE COMPANY TOLD HIM THAT THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THE AXLE, WHICH WAS THE CAUSE OF THE TIRE WEARING OUT SO FAST. THE CONTACT STATED THAT 4 MONTHS LATER WHILE DRIVING HE CAME TO A STOP AND GOT OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND SAW SMOKE COMING FROM THE WHEEL. HE PULLED OVER TO A PARKING LOT AND THE WHEEL CAME OFF THE VEHICLE. HE CONTACTED GRAND CHAMPION ,AND WAS VERY UPSET. HE STATED THAT HE HAD HORSES ON THIS VEHICLE AND THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A CRASH IF HE HADN'T NOTICED THE SMOKE FROM THE BACK OF THE VEHICLE. GRAND CHAMPION INFORMED THE CONTACT THAT HE NEEDED TO GET THE VEHICLE BACK TO THEM. THE CONTACT DID GET THE VEHICLE BACK TO THE DEALERSHIP, AND THEY HAD THE TRAILER FOR 3-4 WEEKS AND INFORMED THE CONTACT THAT THEY REPLACED THE AXLE ON THE VEHICLE BUT THEY DID NOT REPLACED THE FENDER. *AK

NHTSA ID
10183491
Incident
Dec 20, 2005

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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