2000 Hyundai Translead Trailer VAN recall: body & structure
⚠️ What's wrong
Vehicle description: 53' dry freight Trailer vans equipped with lasco translucent fiberglass roofs. The roof panels CAN become wholly or partially detached during operation and the Trailer bodies could partially collapse.
💥 The risk
Continued operation of a Trailer with a roof hole, crack, tear, or separation could result in a roof failure, causing damage to the vehicle, injury to its operator, and possible injury and damage to adjacent vehicles and their passengers.
🔧 The fix
Dealers will replace the lasco frps with kemlite frps or aluminum panels. Owner notification began august 28, 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 hyundai translead at 1-819-574-1500.
- NHTSA campaign
- 01V223000
- Manufacturer
- HYUNDAI TRANSLEAD
- Vehicles affected
- 2,860
- Component
- STRUCTURE:BODY
- Owner phone
- 1-819-574-1500
- NHTSA hotline
- 1-888-327-4236
- Owner letters mailed
- Aug 28, 2001
- Built
- Oct 1, 1996 – Dec 31, 2000
- 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).