Car Problem DataNHTSA records

1997 Gulf Stream Gulf Stream

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the structure › frame and members. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Structure › Frame and Members2
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Structure › Frame and Members
Filed Dec 23, 2003GA

I'VE RECENTLY NOTICED A RATHER SERIOUS SAFETY PROBLEM ON MY GULFSTREAM INNSBRUCK 26FBD TRAVEL TRAILER. THE FLOOR JOISTS ARE NOT PROPERLY ALIGNED WITH THE STAMPED BOLT HOLES IN THE STEEL SUBFRAME. THE ASSEMBLER APPARENTLY DIDN'T FEEL LIKE DRILLING THE HOLES IN THE PROPER LOCATION, SO SOME BOLTS ARE 'TOE-NAILED' (ACTUALLY 'TOE-SCREWED') IN. OTHERS WERE JUST LEFT OUT. I NOTICED THIS WHEN I REALIZED THAT THE FLOOR HAD BECOME EXTREMELY UNEVEN, AND WAS SQUEAKING TERRIBLY. THIS COULD BE REMEDIED BY RE-DRILLING THE SUBFRAME, BUT IT APPEARS THE FLOOR JOISTS ARE DAMAGED BY IMPROPER BOLT INSERTION. THE SUBFLOOR HAS BECOME UNSTABLE.

Structure › Frame and Members
Filed Jun 15, 2001FL

FRAME FLEX. RECALL COMPLETED . BUT MUCH STRESS DAMAGE TO BODY CAUSED FROM RECALL. *AK

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1995
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20003000Routine
19991100Routine
19984100Routine
1997 — this page2000Routine
19963000Routine
19956000Routine
19943010Routine
19923000Routine
19913000Routine

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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.