While traveling on I 87 in New York, the factory-installed receiver hitch broke off allowing my vehicle being towed to separate from my RV causing extensive damage to my 2019 GMC Acadia. This could have been catastrophic if the car had hit other vehicles on this heavily traveled road. There was no visible sign of cracking or metal fatigue prior to the separation. This is not the first time that a tow hitch has separated from a Thor RV.
2016 Thor Motor Coach Hurricane
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the trailer hitches. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trailer Hitches | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsTrailer HitchesCrash
Filed Oct 23, 2021FL
1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.
Across model years
Worst on record: 2015| Year | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Deaths | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2020 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2019 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2018 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2016 — this page | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2015 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
| 2014 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2013 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2012 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
| 2011 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2010 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2008 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2007 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
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.