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1999 King Of The Road Mini Motor Home 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 Sep 3, 2000
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 Sep 3, 2000

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 1999 King Of The Road Mini Motor Home. 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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Body & structure
Filed Sep 3, 2000

FRACTURES WERE FOUND IN I-BEAMS, AFTER ANOTHER IDENTICAL VEHICLE MANUFACTURED ASCENDING VIN 51166, METAL FATIGUED I-BEAMS FAILED CAUSING AXLE TO BREAK FROM FRAME. THIS OCCURRED ON AUGUST 27,2000, VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO DEALER ON 27 AUGUST. MANUFACTURE FAXED TO DEALER ON 28 AUGUST, 2000, A SERVICE ADVISORY DATED 09-29-99, DETAILING HOW TO PATCH DAMAGE. BOTH VEHICLES WERE ORDERED SIMULTANEOUSLY AND DELIVERED 04-30-99. SINCE TAKING DELIVERY HAVE RECEIVED NO NOTICE OF POTENTIAL PROBLEM, UNTIL THE FAILURE OF THE OTHER UNIT. INSPECTION OF MY UNIT SHOWED CRACKS IN I-BEAM IN IDENTICAL LOCATIONS AS THE DAMAGED UNIT. I HAVE MADE PHOTOS OF FAILED/DAMAGED UNIT AS WELL AS MY UNIT IN PRESENT CONDITION. ALSO HAVE COPY OF SERVICE ADVISORY FROM MANUFACTURE THAT WAS FAXED TO DEALER ON 08-28-00. HAVE DISCOVERED THAT MANUFACTURE HAS SINCE CHANGED THE I-BEAM FROM AND 8 INCH TO 10 I-BEAM ON LATER MODELS. I HAVE E-MAILED COMPLAINT TO MANUFACTURE ON 28 AUGUST 00, DETAILING PROBLEM DISCOVERED. AS OF DATE HAVE RECEIVED NO REPLY , EITHER E-MAIL, LETTER OR PHONE CALL FROM MANUFACTURE.

NHTSA ID
730024

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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