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1999 Forest River Salem Lite 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 9, 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 Aug 22, 2000

What this page shows

Our database holds 3 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 1999 Forest River Salem Lite. 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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Other / unspecified
Filed Jul 9, 2008

WE HAD A FAILURE OF OUR DOMETIC RV REFRIGERATOR IN OUR 1999 SALEM 29 FT. CAMPER THIS WEEKEND. WE CAME BACK FROM A HIKE AND NOTICED A STRONG SMELL OF AMMONIA INSIDE. I SHUT OFF POWER TO THE UNIT AND CAME HOME. AFTER TALKING TO SOME FRIENDS ,THEY STATED THAT THERE WAS A NHTSA RECALL ON CERTAIN DOMETIC UNITS. I LOOKED UP THE RECALL AND CALLED THE DOMETIC HELP LINE ONLY TO BE TOLD THAT THEY WILL PAY FOR A SHIELD TO BE PUT ON TO PREVENT FAILURES AND FIRES , BUT NOT REPAIR A UNIT THAT HAD FAILED EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE AWARE OF THE PROBLEM IN THE DESIGN OF THE UNIT. WE ARE THE ORIGINAL OWNERS OF THIS CAMPER AND FILLED OUT ALL WARRANTY CARDS WHEN WE PURCHASED THE CAMPER, INCLUDING THE DOMETIC CARD. WE HAVE NEVER RECEIVED NOTIFICATION THAT A PROBLEM EXISTED THAT COULD CAUSE LIFE SAFETY ISSUES WITH THE CONTINUED USE OF THEIR PRODUCT. IF WE HAD BEEN ASLEEP IN THE CAMPER WHEN THE COOLING SYSTEM FAILED WE COULD HAVE BEEN ASPHYXIATED BY THE RELEASE OF THE AMMONIA GAS INTO THE TRAILER. NOW THEY TELL ME THEY WON'T REPAIR A KNOWN DESIGN PROBLEM WITH THEIR PRODUCT THAT THEY FAILED TO NOTIFY US ABOUT. THANK YOU *TR

NHTSA ID
10233637
Incident
Jul 7, 2008
Tires & wheels
Filed Mar 10, 2004

ON FEB 9, 2004 WHILE DRIVING THE CONSUMER HEARD NOISE COMING FROM THE RIGHT REAR TIRE , AND FOUND THE TIRE HAD A BIG BUBBLE, TIRE WAS REPLACED, ONE MONTHS LATER, ON TWO DIFFERENT OCCASIONS WHILE DRIVING AT 55 MPH, TWO TIRES BLEW UP. CARLISLE SIZE ST225/75R15. *AK

NHTSA ID
10061770
Incident
Mar 10, 2004
Engine
Filed Aug 22, 2000

BRAND NEW CAR WITH A DEFECTIVE ENGINE/I WANT A NEW REPLACEMENT OF VEHICLE

NHTSA ID
728733
Incident
Dec 15, 1999

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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