2002 Vector Coffee Maker VEC216

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the equipment adaptive/mobility. It has been recalled 1 time.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Equipment Adaptive/Mobility	1		0	1	0

1 safety recall

Part 573 reports

Equipment03E023000

Filed Feb 19, 200312,000 vehiclesVector Products, Inc.

Defect. AFTERMARKET VECTOR COFFEE MAKERS PACKAGED AS GREATLAND, MODEL NO. VEC216GT, AND VECTOR, MODEL NO. VEC216. THE HEATING ELEMENT INSIDE THE PRODUCT CAN LOOSEN CAUSING IT TO COME IN CONTACT WITH THE PLASTIC BOTTOM LAYER WHICH SUBSEQUENTLY HEATS THE SURFACE IT SETS ON.

Risk. POSSIBLE FIRE CAN OCCUR.

Remedy. VECTOR HAS NOTIFIED ITS RETAILERS TO REMOVED THE PRODUCT FROM THE SHELVES AND THEY WILL REPLACE THE DEFECTIVE COFFEE MAKER WITH ANOTHER MODEL. NOTIFICATION BEGAN DECEMBER 13, 2002. OWNERS WHO DO NOT RECEIVED THE FREE REMEDY WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME SHOULD CONTACT VECTOR PRODUCTS, INC. AT 954-584-4442.

What owners reported

Newest filings

Equipment Adaptive/MobilityFire

Filed Aug 20, 2007LA

VECTOR POWER INVERTER MODEL VE042DC, SERIAL # 4969106. OWNED APPROX. 1.5 YEARS. PLUGGED UNIT INTO DASH POWER POINT WITH NO ACCESSORIES ATTACHED. UNIT HISSED AND OVERHEATED. SMOKE CAME FROM SIDE VENTS. REMOVED UNIT FROM POWER POINT AND SMOKE SUBSIDED. UNIT HAS BEEN RETAINED. *TR

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.

Recall repairs are free for as long as the recall stands. Check whether a specific car still has open work at NHTSA's VIN lookup.

Most recent recall on file: Feb 19, 2003. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.