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2002 Jayco Kiwi 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 25, 2005
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 25, 2005

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2002 Jayco Kiwi. 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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Electrical
Filed Jul 25, 2005

CONVERTER IN JAYCO KIWI 2002 WENT BAD AND WE HAD LIGHTS, RADIO/CD PLAYER,AND LP DETECTOR RUINED WHEN TOO MANY VOLTS WERE BEING SENT TO THIS EQUIPMENT. WHEN WE WALKED INTO THE TRAILER WE SMELLED AN ELECTRICAL SMELL AND THEN NOTICED SMOKE COMING FROM A PANEL ON THE WALL. AFTER TESTING VOLTAGE BEING PUT OUT BY CONVERTER IT WAS DETERMINED IT WAS SENDING 40 VOLTS TO 12 VOLT EQUIPMENT. THERE WAS NO SAFETY DEVICE ON THIS CONVERTER TO PREVENT THIS FROM "FRYING" OUR EQUIPMENT THAT WAS USING 12 VOLTS AND IF WE HAD NOT WALKED IN WHEN WE DID ,THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A FIRE. WE HAVE INSTALLED A NEW CONVERTER WHICH HAS A SAFETY ON IT TO PREVENT THIS TYPE OF THING FROM HAPPENING. THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED WHEN MANUFACTURING. WE HAVE OLD CONVERTER, RADIO/CD PLAYER AND LP DETECTOR. WE HAVE ALSO REPLACED THE LP DETECTOR ,BUT HAVE NOT PRICED A NEW RADIO YET.

NHTSA ID
10130019
Incident
Jul 9, 2005

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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