Recall · 24V541000
Winnebago Industries recalled the WINNEBAGO Ekko over equipment
2,193
Vehicles covered
1
Model
5
Model years
July 18, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER
- The defect
- Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2021-2025 Ekko motorhomes. The solar charging system was incorrectly designed without sufficient over-current protection, which can allow the circuit to overheat and melt the fuse.
- What it can cause
- A melted fuse increases the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the solar controller fuse and components, as necessary free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 25, 2024. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-641-585-3535. Winnebago's number for this recall is 186.
- 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 2,193 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 67% 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 2025, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Winnebago vehicles have been recalled over the equipment 69 times before this, most recently in April 2024 as 24V295000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 115 complaints with NHTSA, 47 of them before this campaign was filed. 16 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 November 2021, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 15 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V498000 (equipment), 26V257000 (equipment), 25V499000 (tires), 25V478000 (air bags).
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 July 18, 2024 as campaign 24V541000. 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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