Frame has broken in 2 locations at spring attachment bracket.
- NHTSA ID
- 11590268
- Incident
- May 5, 2024
Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full
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Our database holds 3 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2021 Heartland Mallard. 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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Frame has broken in 2 locations at spring attachment bracket.
Frame broke where leaf spring is attached to trailer.
2021 HEARTLAND MALLARD. CONSUMER WRITES IN REAFRDS TO AXLE SAFETY RECALL. THE CONSUMER STATED THE LOWER METAL SIDING SEPARATED FROM THE TRAILER AND BEGAN SCRAPING THE TIRES. THE CONSUMER BELIEVED THIS WAS CAUSED BY THE LARGER TIRES RECOMMENDED BY THE RECALL NOTICE. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED, BUT THE FAILURE RECURRED ALONG WITH THE TRAILER'S DELAMINATING. THE DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE CONSUMER REFERENCED RECALL 21V-009.
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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