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2008 Country Coach Affinity 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 Jul 17, 2008
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 Jul 17, 2008

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2008 Country Coach Affinity. 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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EngineSteering
Filed Jul 17, 2008

ON MAY 26,2008, WHILE DRIVING MY 2007 COUNTRY COACH AFFINITY IN FLORIDA, I HAD A SUDDEN LOSS OF POWER STEERING AND COOLING. THE CAUSE TURNED OUT TO BE A FAILURE OF THE SPLINES IN THE HYDRAULIC PUMP ATTACHED TO THE POWER TAKE-OFF FROM THE TRANSMISSION. THIS PUMP RUNS THE POWER STEERING, AND ANOTHER PUMP IS ATTACHED TO IT WHICH RUNDS THE ENGINE COOLING FAN. DRIVING A MOTOR HOME WITH AN 18,000 LB FRONT AXLE WITHOUT POWER STEERING IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT, TO SAY THE LEAST. IF I HAD NOT BEEN JUST ENTERING THE INTERSTATE FROM THE ON-RAMP AND ABLE TO PULL OFF THE ROAD QUICKLY, I DON'T KNOW THAT I COULD HAVE MANAGED. CERTAINLY IF I HAD BEEN ON A WINDING ROAD, THE SITUATION WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DANGEROUS. I WAS AFRAID I WAS GOING TO BREAK THE STEERING COLUMN LINKAGES BY MANHANDLING IT SO HARD. THE SPLINES WHICH FAILED WERE SIMPLY WORN DOWN TO NOTHING BECAUSE OF THE FRETTING THEY ENDURED BEING IN A CONSTANT USE SITUATION WITH NO LUBRICATION. THE PTO MANUFACTURER TOLD ME, AFTER SOME INVESTIGATION ON MY PART, THAT THE PTO WAS NOT INTENDED TO BE USED IN A CONTINUOUS RUN SITUATION WITH THE DRY SET-UP AS IT WAS. THEY RECOMMEND A LUBRICATED SET-UP WITH EITHER GREASE CONNECTIONS TO ALLOW FREQUENT LUBRICATION OR WITH A FREE-FLOWING CONNECTION WITH THE TRANSMISSION FLUID FOR LUBRICATION CONSTANTLY. COUNTRY COACH REPAIRED THE PROBLEM UNDER WARRANTY WITH THE EXACT SAME SET-UP. THEY TOLD ME THAT THIS HAS BEEN A SOURCE OF NUMEROUS OTHER FAILURES WITH LOW MILEAGE (MY COACH HAD ONLY ABOUT 14,000 MILES ON IT). I PERSONALLY KNOW OF AT LEAST THREE OF COUNTRY COACH OWNERS WHO HAD THE SAME PROBLEM. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS DANGEROUS SITUATION WILL CONTINUE IF THEY KEEP JUST REPLACING THE SAME PARTS AND DO NOT ADDRESS THE CAUSE OF THE FAILURE BY CHANGING TO A LUBRICATED SYSTEM. *TR

NHTSA ID
10234742
Incident
May 26, 2008
Mileage
14,000 mi

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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