Recall · 20V523000
Grand Design RV recalled the GRAND DESIGN Solitude over equipment
8,161
Vehicles covered
1
Model
5
Model years
August 28, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT:APPLIANCE:REFRIGERATOR
- The defect
- Grand Design RV, LLC (Grand Design) is recalling certain 2017-2021 Solitude recreational trailers. The liquid propane (LP) supply line that runs through the exterior lower refrigerator compartment may contact the burner tube of the refrigerator, possibly damaging the line and causing an LP gas leak.
- What it can cause
- An LP gas leak increases the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Grand Design will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the LP supply line for damage, replacing it as necessary. All lines in the vicinity of the burner tube will be wrapped in a thermal foil heat barrier material, then secured away from the burner tube of the refrigerator with additional P-clamps, free of charge. The recall began September 17, 2020. Owners may contact Grand Design customer service at 1-574-825-9679. Grand Design's number for this recall is 910021.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 8,161 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 78% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2017 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Grand Design vehicles have been recalled over the equipment 10 times before this, most recently in September 2018 as 18V637000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 4 of the 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 60 complaints with NHTSA, 7 of them before this campaign was filed. 3 of those name the equipment, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2017, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 25V061000 (equipment), 23V490000 (suspension), 22V038000 (equipment).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Grand Design RV, LLC with NHTSA on August 28, 2020 as campaign 20V523000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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