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2002 Wellco Trailer 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 Aug 9, 2006
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 Aug 9, 2006

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2002 Wellco Trailer. 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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Tires & wheels
Filed Aug 9, 2006

THE PROBLEM OCCURRED ON AN 8X18 ENCLOSED WELLS CARGO MOTORCYCLE TRAILER. I LEFT FREDERICK, MD ON THE MORNING OF 7/29/06 HEADING TO MYRTLE BEACH, SC . WHEN I GOT INTO VA. [APPROX 45 MILES FROM FREDERICK] THE RF TRAILER TIRE BLEW. I PULLED INTO A SHOPPING CENTER PARKING LOT TO CHANGE IT AND NOTICED THAT THE RR TIRE WAS DEVELOPING A BULGE IN THE FIRST TREAD FROM THE OUTSIDE. I CHECKED THE OTHER TIRES AND THEY WERE OK. I REPLACED THESE 2 AND ARRIVED AT MYRTLE BEACH WITH NO FURTHER TIRE PROBLEMS. BECAUSE OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED GOING DOWN ,ON THE WAY BACK HOME ON 8/5/2006 ANY TIME I STOPPED I WOULD INSPECT THE TIRES. WHEN I STOPPED IN WILSON, NC I NOTICED THAT THE LR WAS DEVELOPING THE SAME BULGE IN THE TREAD AS THE OTHER TIRE WHICH DID NOT BLOW. I KEPT AN I ON THE TIRE AND SO DID MY DAUGHTER WHO WAS FOLLOWING BEHIND ME AND MADE IT BACK HOME TO FREDERICK WITHOUT IT BLOWING. THE TIRES ARE ST20575R15 GOODYEAR TRAILER TIRES. THE TIRES HAVE BEEN KEPT PROPERLY INFLATED TO 50 PSI BEFORE ANY USE. THERE IS A VERY SLOW LEAK IN THE LF TIRE BUT THIS IS NOT THE ONE THAT HAS DEVELOPED A PROBLEM YET. THE MOST WEIGHT THIS TRAILER HAS HAD IN IT IS 4 HARLEY'S WEIGHING APPROX 700 - 800 LBS EACH. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME I HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH THIS SAME SIZE AND MAKE TIRE. I HAVE ANOTHER TRAILER WHERE THE TIRE BLEW BECAUSE THE BELT SEPERATED AND IT WAS PARKED. *JB

NHTSA ID
10165092
Incident
Jul 29, 2006

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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