Recall · 21V480000
Winnebago Industries recalled 3 models over seat belts
1,566
Vehicles covered
3
Models
6
Model years
June 25, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:REAR/OTHER:RETRACTOR
- The defect
- Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2021-2022 Solis, Travato, and Ekko vehicles, equipped with GE-ES Double Flipseats. The seat belt retractors may lock up when the vehicle is on a slight incline. As such, these seats fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards numbers 208, "Occupant Crash Protection" and 209, "Seat Belt Assemblies."
- What it can cause
- If the seat belt retractor locks, a passenger may believe they are trapped in the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Winnebago will work with Freedman to notify owners, and dealers will inspect the seat and repair, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on July 23, 2021. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-614-585-6939 or 1-800-537-1885 or Freedman customer service at 1-800-443-4540.
- 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.nhtsa.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 1,566 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 63% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2021 to 2022, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2021, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Winnebago vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 7 times before this, most recently in October 2020 as 20V659000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 3 of the 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 62 complaints with NHTSA. 1 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 12 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V257000 (equipment), 24V541000 (equipment), 24V024000 (lane departure), 23V637000 (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 Winnebago Industries, Inc. with NHTSA on June 25, 2021 as campaign 21V480000. 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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