CRACK APPEARED ON FRONT LEFT SIDE OF ROOF IN THE TRANSITION AREA OF THE TRAILER WALL. CALLED THE MANUFACTURER ABOUT ISSUE. THEY CLAIMED THAT THEY HAD OTHER COMPLAINTS ON THESE MODELS IN THE PAST AND THEY REALIZED THE FRAME WAS NOT STRONG ENOUGH CAUSING THE TRAILER TO FLEX. THEIR FIX TO THE PROBLEM WAS TO WELD ADDITIONAL MATERIAL TO THE STRUCTURE WHILE THE TRAILER WAS UNDER WARRANTY. HOWEVER, OUR TRAILER IS OUT OF WARRANTY AND THEY WOULD NOT FIX THE ISSUE. THEY TOLD US THAT WE COULD EVEN DO THE WORK OURSELVES AND GAVE US DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE THE FRAME MORE ROBUST. SINCE THEN THEY HAVE INCREASED THE STRENGTH IN THEIR FRAMES ON NEWER MODELS TO AVOID POTENTIAL FAILURE; HOWEVER, THEY DID NOT PERFORM A RECALL OR OFFER TO MAKE OUR TRAILER SAFE. THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE BECAUSE IT HAS POTENTIAL OF FAILURE THAT COULD CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH.
2001 Hawk Elite
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the unknown or other. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown or Other | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsUnknown or Other
Filed May 11, 2015OH
1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.
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.