SPRING SHACKLE TORN AWAY FROM FRAME AND MULTIPLE CRACKING IN FRAME ON BOTH SIDES WHERE AXLES ATTACH. CROSS MEMBER WELDS IN SAME AREA ALSO FAILED. CRACKS WHERE FOUND DURING ROUTINE MAINTENANCE.
- NHTSA ID
- 11339896
- Incident
- Jul 13, 2020
- Mileage
- 3,000 mi
Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full
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Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2013 Forest River Coachmen. 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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SPRING SHACKLE TORN AWAY FROM FRAME AND MULTIPLE CRACKING IN FRAME ON BOTH SIDES WHERE AXLES ATTACH. CROSS MEMBER WELDS IN SAME AREA ALSO FAILED. CRACKS WHERE FOUND DURING ROUTINE MAINTENANCE.
I WAS INFORMED THERE WAS A TAKATA AIR BAG RECALL ON MY MOTOR HOME. I WAS IN THE PROCESS OF LOOKING TO TRADE IT IN ON A DIFFERENT MODEL BECAUSE THE LAYOUT PREVENTS MY WIFE FROM USING IT, BUT IN DOING SO I WAS INFORMED BY 2 DIFFERENT MOTORHOME DEALERS THAT THEY COULD NOT TAKE MY MOTORHOME ON TRADE BECAUSE OF THE RECALL. I CALLED MERCEDES BENZ CUSTOMER SERVICE (OR LACK OF) AND THEY INFORMED ME THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO AT THIS TIME TO ASSIST ME. THIS IS NOT RIGHT! THERE HAS BEEN NO DAMAGE OR ACCIDENTS BUT I AM STUCK WITH A VEHICLE THAT I NEED TO GET RID OF.
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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