I WAS JUST PULLING MY HORSE TRAILER OUT OF MY PARKING SPOT WHEN THE BACK DOOR FLEW OPEN. I STOPPED AND GOT OUT AND FOUND THE DOOR HANDLE LYING IN THE DIRT A FEW FEET BEHIND THE TRAILER. THE WELD WAS COMPROMISED AND THE HANDLE JUST FELL RIGHT OFF. IF MY HORSES HAD BEEN LOADED, THEY MOST CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE FALLEN OUT OF THE TRAILER AND DEPENDING ON LOCATION AND SPEED, IT COULD HAVE CAUSED MULTIPLE FATALITIES. I HAVE NOTIFIED THE MANUFACTURER AND THE DEALER. I SINCERELY HOPE THIS WAS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT AND NO OTHER WELDS ON THE TRAILER ARE COMPROMISED. *TR
2013 Valley Stock Bumper Pull Horse
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the structure › body › door. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structure › Body › Door | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsStructure › Body › Door
Filed Jul 31, 2014MA
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.