NHTSA recall 08V509000
Equipment · Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc.
Details
What's wrong: Affects vehicles equipped with a two-door refrigerator manufactured by the dometic corporation. The refrigerator may have a defect in the boiler tube. Pressurized coolant solution could be released into an area where an ignition source (gas flame) is present.
Why it matters: Release of coolant under certain conditions could ignite and result in a fire.
The fix: Tiffin will be working with dometic in order to repair these refrigerators (please see 08E032). Dometic will repair these refrigerators by installing a secondary burn housing, a thermal fuse, and a melt fuse free of charge. Dometic has retained stericycle Inc. to manage this campaign. Stericycle…
Affected vehicles on MotorDeets
- 2004 Tiffin Allegro
- 2004 Tiffin Allegro Bay
- 2004 Tiffin Allegro Bus
- 2004 Tiffin Phaeton
- 2005 Tiffin Allegro
- 2005 Tiffin Allegro Bay
- 2005 Tiffin Allegro Bus
- 2005 Tiffin Phaeton
- 2005 Tiffin Zephyr
- 2006 Tiffin Allegro
- 2006 Tiffin Allegro Bay
- 2006 Tiffin Allegro Bus
- 2006 Tiffin Zephyr
- 2007 Tiffin Allegro
- 2007 Tiffin Allegro Bay
- 2007 Tiffin Allegro Bus
- 2007 Tiffin Zephyr
All model years NHTSA lists
2004 Tiffin Allegro, 2005 Tiffin Allegro, 2006 Tiffin Allegro, 2007 Tiffin Allegro, 2004 Tiffin Allegro Bay, 2005 Tiffin Allegro Bay, 2006 Tiffin Allegro Bay, 2007 Tiffin Allegro Bay, 2004 Tiffin Allegro Bus, 2005 Tiffin Allegro Bus, 2006 Tiffin Allegro Bus, 2007 Tiffin Allegro Bus, 2004 Tiffin Phaeton, 2005 Tiffin Phaeton, 2005 Tiffin Zephyr, 2006 Tiffin Zephyr, 2007 Tiffin Zephyr.
Recalls can cover only some VINs. Check yours on NHTSA's official recall page for 08V509000.
Source: NHTSA recall records. Summary shortened; the official notice has the full text.