Newmar New Aire Class A Motorhome. Published by Transport Canada as 2018163 on 5 April 2018. System: Wheels.
What the notice says On certain motorhomes built on a Freightliner chassis, an incorrect valve stem stabilizer may have been used on the single drive axle. This could result in the incorrect stabilizer to become dislodged from the wheel and allow the valve stem extension for the inner wheel to contact the outer wheel, potentially causing …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2018163
- Recall date
- 5 April 2018
- Make
- Newmar
- Models
- New Aire Class A Motorhome
- Model years
- 2018
- Vehicle class
- Motorhome
- System
- Wheels
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 9
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain motorhomes built on a Freightliner chassis, an incorrect valve stem stabilizer may have been used on the single drive axle. This could result in the incorrect stabilizer to become dislodged from the wheel and allow the valve stem extension for the inner wheel to contact the outer wheel, potentially causing damage to the valve stem. If the valve stem we to be damaged, it could cause a loss of air pressure in the inner tire, which may overload the outer tire and increase the risk of a crash causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: Daimler Trucks North America authorized service facilities will inspect and replace the inner wheel valve stem stabilizer as necessary.
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 2018163.
Newmar elsewhere in this register
Newmar is named on 169 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2018182 · 13 April 2018 · New Aire Class A Motorhome, Ventana Le Class A Motorhome, Bay Star · Electrical
- 2018189 · 18 April 2018 · Dutch Star Class A Motorhome, London Aire Class A Motorhome, Ventana Le Class A Motorhome · Lights And Instruments
- 2018143 · 26 March 2018 · Mountain Aire Class A Motorhome, Dutch Star Class A Motorhome, Ventana Class A Motorhome · Steering
- 2018109 · 2 March 2018 · Essex Class A Motorhome · Lights And Instruments
- 2018253 · 11 May 2018 · Mountain Aire Class A Motorhome · Structure
- 2018303 · 8 June 2018 · London Aire Class A Motorhome, King Aire Class A Motorhome, Essex Class A Motorhome · Visual System
- 2018314 · 13 June 2018 · Dutch Star Class A Motorhome · Structure
- 2018329 · 15 June 2018 · Ventana Class A Motorhome, Dutch Star Class A Motorhome, Essex Class A Motorhome · Electrical
The same system: Wheels
194 notices in this register name Wheels. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2018206 · 25 April 2018 · Cyclone Iii, Cyclone, Typhoon · Wheels
- 2018308 · 12 June 2018 · Twin Steer Conversion · Wheels
- 2018414 · 6 August 2018 · Wheel Guard · Wheels
- 2018487 · 10 September 2018 · Vacationer, Southwind · Wheels
- 2018496 · 12 September 2018 · X6 · Wheels
- 2017503 · 18 October 2017 · Metris · Wheels
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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 Newmar New Aire, 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 Newmar: 169 in the register, and 704 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2018.
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