Heartland Big Horn, Big Country. Published by Transport Canada as 2015046 on 30 January 2015. System: Structure.
What the notice says On certain fifth wheel trailers, the axles may have been installed too far forward, which could affect weight distribution. Incorrectly distributed trailer weight could adversely affect vehicle stability and potentially cause an uncontrolled swaying motion, which could result in a crash causing injury and/or property …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Transport Canada carries this recall as 2015046, dated 30 January 2015. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 15V049, dated 30 January 2015. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, 990119.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2015046 | 15V049 |
| Dated | 30 January 2015 | 30 January 2015 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
Both registers carry the same date for this defect.
These are the dates each register records against its own notice. They are separate administrative acts in two countries, recorded by two authorities under two sets of rules, and this page does not claim that one caused the other or that owners in either country were contacted on those days. What it shows is that the same manufacturer campaign reached the two registers on different dates.
Read the American notice 15V049, including every earlier version of its wording this site holds. The Canadian register explains why the manufacturer code is published there and what that makes possible. Canada and America sets every matched pair side by side.
Heartland BIG HORN in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Heartland BIG HORN is named on 1 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2015046
- Recall date
- 30 January 2015
- Make
- Heartland
- Models
- Big Horn, Big Country
- Model years
- 2015
- Vehicle class
- Light Trailer
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 8
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain fifth wheel trailers, the axles may have been installed too far forward, which could affect weight distribution. Incorrectly distributed trailer weight could adversely affect vehicle stability and potentially cause an uncontrolled swaying motion, which could result in a crash causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Heartland will either relocate the axles rearward, or install a ballast to the pin box and upgrade the axles to offset the increased ballast, depending on the model involved. Each trailer will also be weighed and tire, axle and cargo capacity labels bearing updated information will be applied.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2015046.
Heartland elsewhere in this register
Heartland is named on 50 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2015141 · 1 April 2015 · Edge, Cyclone, Big Horn · Structure
- 2015142 · 1 April 2015 · Landmark, Torque, North Trail · Structure
- 2015413 · 18 September 2015 · Edge, Elk Ridge, North Trail · Label
- 2014086 · 18 March 2014 · Landmark, Bighorn Silverado · Accessories
- 2014035 · 7 February 2014 · Landmark · Label
- 2016229 · 16 May 2016 · Fairfield, Lakeview, Resort · Other
- 2016232 · 17 May 2016 · Mallard, North Trail · Label
- 2016415 · 25 August 2016 · Elk Ridge, Mallard, Wilderness · Lights And Instruments
The same system: Structure
800 notices in this register name Structure. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2015045 · 30 January 2015 · Leu · Structure
- 2015042 · 29 January 2015 · Xpert · Structure
- 2015035 · 28 January 2015 · Taurus, MKS · Structure
- 2015034 · 28 January 2015 · MKT · Structure
- 2015019 · 19 January 2015 · Slingshot · Structure
- 2015118 · 18 March 2015 · Malibu · Structure
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Heartland Big Country, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Heartland: 50 in the register, and 620 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2015.
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