2000 Newell Motor Home recall: suspension
⚠️ What's wrong
Vehicle description: Motor homes equipped with dana speciality axle TS6 tag axles. Hub overload CAN cause premature bearing failure at between 12,000 and 20,000 miles.
💥 The risk
This failure could result in the wheel and tire assembly becoming disconnected from the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
🔧 The fix
Dealers will install a revised tag axle suspension arrangement to correct this problem. Also, at intervals of 7,500 miles, owners are requested to arrange to have the tag axle wheel bearings replaced at a dealership or call newell to issue authorization to have these bearings changed in a service facility in the field at newell's expense.
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
- 00V354000
- Manufacturer
- NEWELL COACH CORP.
- Vehicles affected
- 55
- Component
- SUSPENSION:FRONT:WHEEL BEARING
- NHTSA hotline
- 1-888-327-4236
- Owner letters mailed
- Feb 22, 2001
- Built
- Nov 1, 1999 – Oct 15, 2000
- Recall started by
- MFR
- Notes
- Owner notification began february 22, 2001.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 newell at 1-918-542-3344.also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).