Thor Motor Coach: Equipment › Recreational Vehicle/Trailer
Thor Motor Coach reported this defect to federal regulators on Jan 8, 2015 and put the number of vehicles at risk at 154. The repair is free for as long as the recall stands.
The defect
Thor Motor Coach (TMC) is recalling certain model year 2015 Challenger, Four Winds 5000, Hurricane, Miramar, Chateau Citation, Chateau, Windsport, and Palazzo motorhomes manufactured April 24, 2014, to December 11, 2014, and equipped with certain Latitude awnings manufactured by Carefree of Colorado. The affected awnings may have screws that attach the lateral arm brackets to the mounting brackets that were not manufactured to specification.
The risk
The screws could fail, causing the supporting bracket to fail, and the awning to fall and potentially strike and injure a person beneath it.
The remedy
TMC will notify owners, and dealers will remove and replace the defective screws, free of charge. The recall began January 23, 2015. Owners may contact TMC customer service at 1-877-500-1020. TMC's number for this recall is RC000097.
8 model years covered
Newest first| Vehicle | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Crashes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 Thor Palazzo | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 Thor Motor Coach Challenger | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 Thor Motor Coach Chateau | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 Thor Motor Coach Chateau Citation | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 Thor Motor Coach Four Winds 5000 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 Thor Motor Coach Hurricane | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 Thor Motor Coach Miramar | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 Thor Motor Coach Windsport | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
What this page is, and what to do next
A recall is not an opinion. It is a Part 573 report a manufacturer is required by federal law to file once it decides a defect poses an unreasonable risk to safety, and it commits them to repairing the vehicle at no cost to the owner. The three passages above are the manufacturer’s own wording as published by NHTSA.
This page describes the campaign. It cannot tell you whether one particular car has already been through the shop — that is tracked by VIN, and only the manufacturer knows it. Check yours at nhtsa.gov/recalls or with a franchised dealer, quoting campaign number 15V004000.
Full record for the 2015 Thor Palazzo → · Recalls carrying a do-not-drive advisory → · Where this data comes from →