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2005 Alfa Gold 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 Aug 30, 2005
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 Aug 30, 2005

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2005 Alfa Gold. 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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Brakes
Filed Aug 30, 2005

DAD: THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 ALFA LEISURE INCORPORATED MODEL 303 FIFTH WHEEL TRAILER. HE OWNED THIS TRAILER FOR 120 DAYS. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE BRAKES WERE INADEQUATE. THE TRAILER WEIGHED 18,500 POUNDS. WHEN THE BRAKES BECAME HOT THEY DID NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY. THE CONSUMER ALMOST HAD THREE ACCIDENTS WITHIN THE LAST 90 DAYS. IT OCCURRED WHILE ON VACATION AND DRIVING AT 25 MPH. THE CONSUMERS FRIEND WAS PULLING A TRAILER BEHIND HIM AND THE BRAKES WERE SMOKING/GETTING HOT AND WERE ABOUT TO MALFUNCTION, THE CONSUMER HAS ANOTHER FRIEND THAT PURCHASED A SIMILAR TRAILER AND THE BRAKES FAILED BECAUSE THEY OVERHEATED. THIS PROBLEM DID NOT OCCUR ON LEVEL GROUND, BUT HAD TO WORK THE BRAKES HARD WHILE COMING DOWN A HILL FOR A PERIOD. THE MANUFACTURER DID NOT PUT IN BIG ENOUGH BRAKES FOR THIS TRAILER. THE MANUFACTURER WAS AWARE OF THIS PROBLEM AND DID NOT WANT TO FIX THIS TRAILER BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE TO FIX ALL TRAILERS. THE HEAD OF THE WARRANTY DEPARTMENT TOLD THE CONTACT THAT THEY DID NOT WANT TO SET A PRECEDENT BY REPAIRING THESE TRAILERS BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE LIABLE. THERE ARE THREE AXLES UNDER THIS TRAILER WEIGHING 6000 POUNDS.*AK THE CONSUMER WAS TOLD BY A MECHANIC THAT THE BRAKES WERE TOO SMALL FOR THE RV. *JB

NHTSA ID
10134812
Incident
May 15, 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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