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2015 Newmar Canyon Star 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 Mar 3, 2022
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 Mar 3, 2022

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2015 Newmar Canyon Star. 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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Brakes
Filed Mar 3, 2022

I have a 2015 Newmar Canyon Star 3953 (on an F-53 Motorhome Chassis) serial number [XXX] with 57,335 miles. The attached picture does not do justice to what I have to say. The picture is the front rotor of the brake assembly. In between the outer and inner plates of the rotor are two steel rods. The only purpose (that is thought) of the rod is to balance the rotor. The problem is, the rotor heats up as you brake then expands the rotor which loosens the area around the rod. Centrifugal force moves the rod out of the air gap and it starts to hit the caliper (in the picture you can see the top of the rod is shiny) resulting in a thumping sound or what has happened, the rotor cracks. I have had to replace both front calipers and rotors as a result of these rods. Thankfully when the rotor cracked I was only traveling about 30 mph. I can only imagine what would have happened if I was traveling 60 mph. In talking with the mechanic the rod could have jammed on the front edge (worst case) of the rotor then broke all of the fins in the air gap and perhaps stopped the rotation of the tire. These were factory-installed rotors which clearly (in my opinion) a safety hazard and warrants a recall or at least an investigation. INFORMATION Redacted PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).

NHTSA ID
11454972
Incident
Mar 1, 2022

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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