I WAS PULLING MY BOAT ON A DUAL AXEL SHORELAND'R BOAT TRAILER EQUIPPED WITH A FOLDING OR SWING TONGUE. THE TONGUE IS HELD IN PLACE WITH A STEEL PIN EIGHT INCHES LONG. THE TRAILER HIT A BUMP AND THE PIN SHEARED IN HALF. ABOUT FIVE MILES LATER THE PIN RELEASED AND THE TRAILER TONGUE FOLDED PUTTING THE REAR OF THE BOAT INTO THE ONCOMING LANE OF TRAFFIC. THE BOW OF THE BOAT HIT THE TOW VEHICLE CAUSING $4,000 OF DAMAGE. THE PIN SELECTED BY THE MANUFACTURER HAS THREE HOLES DRILLED ON THE SHAFT. THE BREAK OCCURRED THROUGH ONE OF THE HOLES. THIS PIN IS CLEARLY NOT SUITABLE FOR THIS USE. OTHER TRAILER MANUFACTURERS USE A SOLID PIN OF GREATER TENSILE STRENGTH. UPDATED 06/22/10 *BF *TR
2007 Shoreland'r SLR46TBB
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the structure. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structure | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsStructureCrash
Filed Jun 21, 20101,000 milesWA
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.