WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY IN FLORIDA, ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE, THE ENTIRE TRAILER HITCH ASSEMBLY FELL FROM THE BODY OF THE RV. WE WERE TOWING A TRAILER WITH OUR RACE CAR IN IT AT THE TIME. SOME GOOD SAMARITANS FROM THE FLORIDA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT WERE THERE TO HELP US AND, UPON INSPECTION, WE FOUND THAT THE ENTIRE HITCH WAS HELD TOGETHER BY ONLY 2 BOLTS. THE OTHER HOLES IN THE HITCH ASSEMBLY DID NOT ALIGN WITH THE HOLES FOR THE BOLTS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE RV BODY. NEW HOLES HAD TO BE DRILLED ON THE SPOT IN ORDER TO SAFELY SECURE THE HITCH ASSEMBLY. WHEN WE ALERTED THE OWNERS AT NEXUS THEY TOLD US THAT THEY WOULD CHECK OTHER NEW RV'S IN THE PLANT, BUT, JUDGING FROM THE HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE WE HAVE EXPERIENCED FROM NEXUS, I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT THIS WAS DONE. WE WERE FORTUNATE THAT NO ONE WAS KILLED OR CRITICALLY INJURED AND ARE WORRIED THAT THERE MAY BE OTHER NEXUS RV'S ON THE ROAD WITH THE IMPROPER HITCH ASSEMBLY.
2016 Nexus Phantom
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 Mar 21, 2018800 milesMD
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.