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2012 Northwood Nash 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 Oct 17, 2012
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 Oct 17, 2012

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Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2012 Northwood Nash. 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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Other / unspecified
Filed Oct 17, 2012
Crash reported

LETTER FROM SENATOR MCCAIN ON BEHALF OF CONSTITUENT RE PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED WITH HER 2012 NASH TRAILER (DOT/I#S 2012 251) NOTE: RESPOND DIRECTLY TO CONSTITUENT *TGW THE CONSUMER STATED HE HAD AN ACCIDENT WITH HIS BRAND NEW 2012 NORTHWOOD NASH TRAILER. HE STATED THE INCIDENT COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED HAD SWAY BARS BEEN USED FOR THE WEIGHT OF THE DISTRIBUTION HITCH. WHEN THE CONSUMERS HUSBAND REACHED HIS RENTED SPACE FOR THE RV, IT WAS SOON DISCOVERED THEY COULD NOT GET IT UNHITCHED. THEY CALLED THE DEALER, WHO WALKED THEM THROUGH ON HOW TO GET IT UNHITCHED WITH THE DISTRIBUTION BARS. THE HITCH WAS TAKEN BACK TO THE DEALER, BECAUSE IT WAS USED AND PARTS WERE MISSING. THE DEALER STATED EVERYTHING WAS FIXED. DURING A TRIP, THE CONSUMER NOTICED THE TRAILER SEEMED TO HAVE SOME SWAY WHEN THEY PASSED BY OTHER LARGE VEHICLES. AS THE CONSUMERS HUSBAND CONTINUED TO DRIVE, HE BEGAN CLIMBING A HILL, AS THEY PASSED A FED EX SEMI TRUCK, THE TRAILER WAS PUSHED FROM THE AIR OF PASSING THE SEMI TRUCK AND STARTED SWAYING OUT OF CONTROL. THE CONSUMER'S HUSBAND ATTEMPTED TO KEEP THE TRAILER ON THE ROAD, BUT IT THREW THEM AROUND, UNTIL IT JACK-KNIFED AND FELL ON ITS SIDE AND SLID FOR A WHILE. IT FLIPPED OVER THE VEHICLE THEY WERE TOWING INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC AND PUSHED THE REAR OF THE TRUCK INTO THE AIR.

NHTSA ID
10481741
Incident
Aug 30, 2012

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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