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2013 Element Travel 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 Aug 13, 2013
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 13, 2013

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2013 Element Travel 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.

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ElectricalOther / unspecified
Filed Aug 13, 2013

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 ELEMENT TRAVEL TRAILER. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING 50 MPH, THE HITCHING PIN DETACHED FROM THE VEHICLE, THE AIR CONDITIONING FAILED TO BLOW COOL AIR, THE CONTROL PANEL FAIL TO OPERATE, AND THE CONTACT SMELLED PROPANE EMERGING FROM THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER AND REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURES. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 43,000.

NHTSA ID
10535133
Incident
May 4, 2013
Mileage
43,000 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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