1997 Four Winds Four Winds

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the tires › sidewall. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Tires › Sidewall1
000
Tires1
000
Fuel System, Gasoline › Storage › Tank Assembly1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Tires
Filed May 19, 2003FL

WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY THE VEHICLE EXPERIENCED TWO SEPARATE TIRE BLOWOUTS. THE FIRST WAS THE WAS THE DRIVER'S OUTSIDE DUAL. THE SECOND FAILURE WAS THE PASSENGER OUTSIDE DUAL. TIRE INFO: FIRESTONE STEELTEX RADIALS R4S, LT225/75R16, DOT NO.-VD1L1XD159. *NLM

Fuel System, Gasoline › Storage › Tank Assembly
Filed Mar 4, 2003IL

THE GASOLINE TANK LEAKED. *AK *NLM

Tires › Sidewall
Filed Jul 31, 2001FL

CONSUMER STATES WHEN HE PURCHASED THE MOTORHOME THE FRONT TIRE WAS OUT OF LINE, AND HE HAD IT REALIGNED AND REPLACED WITH A NEW TIRE, CONSUMER THEN REMOVED THE SPARE AND PUT IT ON THE LEFT FRONT, CONSUMER THEN POINTED OUT TO THE FIRESTONE DEALER THAT THE REAR TIRES WERE CRACKING ON THE SIDEWALLS, FOUR NEW TIRES WERE ORDERED FOR REPLACEMENT, CONSUMER RECEIVED A CALL FROM FIRESTONE INFORMING HIM THAT THE REPLACEMENT TIRES WERE NOT UNDER WARRANTY, AS THE CRACKING WAS NORMAL, WHILE TRAVELING THREE OF THE REAR TIRES FAILED AT ABOUT 36,500 MILES, TWO OF THE TIRES PEELED THE TREAD DOWN TO THE CASING AND THE THIRD PARTIALLY PEELED 50% OF THE TREAD CASING, CONSUMER BELIEVES THAT TIRES ARE OF POOR RUBBER QUALITY.(FIRESTONE STEELTEX RADIAL R4S LT225/75R167 M/S LOAD RANGE E)*YH

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1998
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20110100Routine
20100100Routine
20090100Routine
20060300Routine
20050300Routine
20040300Routine
20030400Routine
20021200Routine
20014300Routine
200010300Routine
199911200Routine
199812000Routine
1997 — this page3000Routine
19964000Routine
19954010Routine
19941000Routine
19933000Routine
19922000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.