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NHTSA recall 98V167004

Equipment › Recreational vehicle/trailer › Lpg systems › Furnace

Featherlite Motor Home

Reported Sep 15, 199880 vehicles affectedFEATHERLITE, INC.

The defect

Vehicle description: motor homes equipped with aqua-hot heating systems, model 431-3 zone with engine loop. fiberglass insulating material located under the burner head on the floor of the heater enclosure, can become soaked with fluids (ethylene glycol and/or diesel fuel).

The risk

If an electrical short occurs, a fire could result.

The remedy

Dealers will remove the insulation from beneath the diesel heating unit as well as from behind the control thermostat and air-conditioning heating element access covers.

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Vehicles in this recall

Featherlite Motor Home
1997

Notes

Owner notification began july 14, 1998. Owners who take their motor homes to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact featherlite/vogue at 1-800-237-8978 or vsi at 1-800-685-4289.also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-dash-2-dot (1-888-327-4236).