Recall · 23V469000
Newmar recalled 3 models over seat belts
372
Vehicles covered
3
Models
11
Model years
July 7, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:REAR/OTHER:ANCHORAGE
- The defect
- Newmar Corporation (Newmar) is recalling certain 2019-2023 Bay Star, 2020-2023 Bay Star Sport, and 2022-2023 Super Star motorhomes. The seat belt brackets for the dinette seat belts were modified to avoid interference with the vehicle slide-out rollers in the floor. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard numbers 210, "Seat belt Assembly Anchorages" and 207, "Seating Systems."
- What it can cause
- Modified seat belt mounting brackets can fail to properly restrain an occupant in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the seat belt mounting brackets, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 4, 2023. Owners may contact Newmar customer service at 1-800-731-8300. Newmar's number for this recall is 604RSB.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| NewmarBAY Star | 2019 to 2023 | 2021 |
| NewmarBAY Star Sport | 2020 to 2023 | Not published here |
| NewmarSuper Star | 2022 to 2023 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 372 vehicles this is a small campaign: 52% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Newmar vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 3 times before this, most recently in August 2004 as 04V403000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 11 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 16 complaints with NHTSA, 10 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2021, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 11 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V108000 (structure), 24V787000 (tires), 24V301000 (equipment), 23V138000 (latches/locks/linkages).
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 Newmar Corporation with NHTSA on July 7, 2023 as campaign 23V469000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2023-07-07.
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