2001 Fleetwood Mallard 39D & 2001 Fleetwood Prowler 39D + 2 more recall: body & structure
⚠️ What's wrong
Vehicle description: travel trailers equipped with the bedroom slide option #966. These travel trailers CAN experience towing instability at speeds in excess of 55 MPH.
💥 The risk
If this situation is not controlled it could lead to a loss of vehicle control resulting in personal injury and/or a vehicle crash.
🔧 The fix
Dealers will equipped the travel trailer with steel plates along the chassis main rails in order to provide the maximum towing performance possible by optimizing the tongue load. Owner notification began july 6, 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 fleetwood at 1-800-445-3307.
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
- 01V219000
- Manufacturer
- FLEETWOOD ENT., INC.
- Vehicles affected
- 168
- Component
- STRUCTURE:FRAME AND MEMBERS
- Owner phone
- 1-800-445-3307
- NHTSA hotline
- 1-888-327-4236
- Owner letters mailed
- Jul 6, 2001
- Built
- Dec 1, 2000 – May 31, 2001
- Recall started by
- MFR
- Notes
- Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).