Trail King Acs Step Deck, Aacs Step Deck. Published by Transport Canada as 2018516 on 19 September 2018. System: Structure.
What the notice says On certain trailers, the welded joint between the aluminum cross member and frame beam may be inadequate and could crack. If the weld cracks are not detected and allowed to propagate, other areas of the frame structure may also crack. This could eventually cause the suspension to loosen from the frame, increasing the …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2018516
- Recall date
- 19 September 2018
- Make
- Trail King
- Models
- Acs Step Deck, Aacs Step Deck
- Model years
- 2016 to 2018
- Vehicle class
- Heavy Trailer
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 52
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain trailers, the welded joint between the aluminum cross member and frame beam may be inadequate and could crack. If the weld cracks are not detected and allowed to propagate, other areas of the frame structure may also crack. This could eventually cause the suspension to loosen from the frame, increasing the risk of a crash causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: Dealers will inspect the trailers and replace the cross member with one of a different design.
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 2018516.
Trail King elsewhere in this register
Trail King is named on 10 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2019134 · 12 March 2019 · Acs Step Deck, Aacs Step Deck · Structure
- 2017424 · 1 September 2017 · TKHDG Gooseneck Lowbed Trailer · Structure
- 2017153 · 20 March 2017 · Aacs Step Deck, Acs Step Deck · Structure
- 2021515 · 17 August 2021 · Olb - Live Bottom Trailer, Ashr - Belt Trailer · Suspension
- 2021648 · 25 October 2021 · Acs Step Deck, Aacs Step Deck · Structure
- 2023544 · 6 October 2023 · Tkfa, Tkab, Tkpa · Suspension
- 2024531 · 16 September 2024 · TKHDG Gooseneck Lowbed Trailer · Structure
- 2024699 · 18 November 2024 · TKHT · Suspension
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.
- 2018522 · 19 September 2018 · Camplite · Structure
- 2018509 · 17 September 2018 · Bighorn, Colt, Charger · Structure
- 2018504 · 14 September 2018 · Mazda6 · Structure
- 2018540 · 3 October 2018 · Sonic · Structure
- 2018555 · 9 October 2018 · GT · Structure
- 2018552 · 9 October 2018 · Anthem, Cornerstone, Insignia · Structure
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This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Trail King Aacs, 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 Trail King: 10 in the register, and 704 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2018.
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