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2004 Coachmen Chaparral 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 Mar 1, 2011
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 Mar 1, 2011

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2004 Coachmen Chaparral. 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.

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Tires & wheels
Filed Mar 1, 2011

I HAD TWO CARLISLE TIRES BLOW OUT IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS. THE TIRES WERE INSTALLED ALONG WITH 2 OTHERS ON MY 2004 COACHMEN CHAPAREL BY A TIRE DEALER IN NOVEMBER, 1907. THE TRAILER MANUFACTURER SPECIFIED ST 225/75R15, LOAD RATING D TIRES, BUT THE TIRES I PURCHASED ARE ST 225/75R15 LOAD RATING E. THE FIRST TIRE BLEW LAST FALL ON A TWO-LANE STATE HIGHWAY CAUSING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO THE TRAILER. THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT OF THE TIRE BUT THE SIDEWALLS. THE SECOND TIRE BLEW THIS JANUARY, 2011 ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 10, CAUSING SOME DAMAGE TO THE TRIM AT THE TIRE WELL. THE TIRE WAS INTACT WITH A LARGE HOLE IN THE SIDEWALL. THE REPAIRMAN SAID THE TIRE WAS FAULTY AND THE BLOW OUT WAS NOT CAUSED BY A ROAD HAZARD. IN BOTH OF THESE CASES THE TIRE PRESSURE WAS CHECKED BEFORE THE TRIP AND HAD 80 PSI WHICH IS RECOMMENDED FOR 2830 LB LOAD AT 65 MPH. I WAS DRIVING 55-60 MPH IN BOTH CASES. I PULLED THIS TRAILER TO ALASKA IN 2004 (AROUND 12,000 MILES) AND TO NOVA SCOTIA IN 2007 (AROUND 5,000 MILES) AND NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH AMERICAN MADE TIRES. TRAILER TIRES MADE IN CHINA AND TAIWAN ARE THE ONLY ONES AVAILABLE, THESE ARE A HAZARD TO THE TRAVELLING PUBLIC, INCLUDING THOSE SHARING THE HIGHWAY AND THOSE IN THE TOWING VEHICLES. *TR

NHTSA ID
10386102
Incident
Jan 14, 2011

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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