Recall · 23V234000
Winnebago Industries recalled the WINNEBAGO Ekko over electrical system
1,266
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
March 31, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- The defect
- Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2021-2023 Ekko motorhomes. The 12-Volt charging system may have improperly routed wires and loose electrical connections, which can overload the electrical circuits and cause damage to electrical components, including the auxiliary alternator.
- What it can cause
- Overloaded electrical circuits that damage components increase the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and correct the wire routing and electrical connections, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 30, 2023. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-641-585-6939 or 1-800-537-1885. Winnebago's number for this recall is 174.
- 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 1,266 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 61% 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 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Winnebago vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 17 times before this, most recently in October 2021 as 21V793000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 86 complaints with NHTSA, 3 of them before this campaign was filed. 50 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 9 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 March 31, 2023 as campaign 23V234000. 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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