2013 Vanguard Dry Freight Van Trailer

Routine

Owners filed 59 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the structure › body. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Structure › Body59
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 9, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 8, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 8, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 8, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

Structure › Body
Filed Apr 8, 2019TN

PANELS DEFECTIVE SHOWING PITTING AROUND RIVETS. BOWING PROBABLE. ISSUE HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY VANGUARD.

20 of 59 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2013
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20150100Routine
20141100Routine
2013 — this page59000Routine
201114000Routine
200949000Routine

Compare every Dry Freight Van Trailer year →

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.