2000 Dutchmen Breeze & 2000 Dutchmen Zephyr recall: body & structure
⚠️ What's wrong
Vehicle description: travel trailers. Wooden boards were mounted between the axle brackets and the frame of these travel trailers. The boards could deteriorate and/or compress sufficiently to allow the metal bracket of the axle mount to press downward against the bracket side mounting bolts.
💥 The risk
This downward contact could create a shearing force across the bolts, allowing the axles to separate from the travel trailer.
🔧 The fix
Dealers will replace the wood with a steel tube section.
Is the fix free? Yes. Safety recall repairs are free at any authorized dealer under federal law, including parts and labor. (Vehicles more than 15 years old when the recall was announced can be excluded, but most manufacturers still fix them.)
- NHTSA campaign
- 00V049000
- Manufacturer
- DUTCHMEN MANUFACTURING, INC.
- Vehicles affected
- 105
- Component
- STRUCTURE:FRAME AND MEMBERS
- NHTSA hotline
- 1-888-327-4236
- Owner letters mailed
- Mar 6, 2000
- Built
- Aug 27, 1999 – Jan 27, 2000
- Recall started by
- MFR
- Notes
- Owner notification is expected to begin during march 2000.owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact dutchmen at 1-219-534-1224. Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).