NHTSA campaign 12V366000
Gulf Stream Recall 12V-366: Hydraulic Brakes
- Recall influenced by NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation
NHTSA recall 12V366000 was reported by Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. on July 30, 2012, with 443 vehicles potentially affected (per NHTSA). NHTSA's record lists the Gulf Stream Bounty Hunters, Gulf Stream Crescendo, Gulf Stream Independence and more for model years 2006–2009.
Updated daily from NHTSA's recall files
Is my vehicle included?
This page lists, by model year, the vehicles NHTSA's recall record names for campaign 12V366000 in the model years try.vin imports (1995 and later); NHTSA's own record can list more. A model year on the list doesn't mean every vehicle of that year is included, and some may already have been repaired.
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Key facts
- NHTSA campaign
- 12V366000 (also written 12V-366 or 12V366)
- Filed by
- Gulf Stream Coach, Inc.
- Report received
- Potentially affected
- 443 vehicles (per NHTSA)
- Component
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic
- NHTSA investigation
- Preliminary Evaluation PE12-004 (per NHTSA's investigations file)
Vehicles listed for this recall
NHTSA's recall record lists these vehicles for recall 12V366000. try.vin imports model years 1995 and later, so NHTSA's own list can be longer. Model years with a try.vin recall page link to it. Build dates are NHTSA's range for a model year (per NHTSA); a vehicle built in that range is not necessarily included.
Gulf Stream
Gulf Stream Bounty Hunters
Gulf Stream Crescendo
Gulf Stream Independence
Gulf Stream Sun Voyager
Gulf Stream Yellowstone
NHTSA's recall notice
As NHTSA's recall record states it for campaign 12V366000.
Defect description
Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. (GSC) is recall certain model year 2006 through 2008 Crescendo, Sun Voyager, Independence, Bounty Hunters, and Yellowstone Class A diesel pusher motor homes built on Freightliner Custom Chassis (FCCC) from March 18, 2005, through December 2009. These motorhomes chassis are equipped with Bosch hydraulic disc brakes which, when exposed to long periods of time of non-driving, may experience diametrical brake caliper piston growth and reduced piston to bore clearance potentially leading to brake drag and overheating resulting in reduced brake performance.
Safety consequence
Reduced brake performance increases the risk of a crash.
Manufacturer remedy
FCCC will notify owners, and dealers will repair the vehicles, free of charge. An interim letter was mailed by DTNA on August 6, 2012. Owners may contact GSC at 1-800-289-8787 or Daimler Trucks/FCCC at 1-800-547-0712.
Notes
Daimler Trucks recall campaign number is FL-628.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.
Sources
Official NHTSA notice for recall 12V366000
Campaign details come from NHTSA's recall files, which try.vin imports once a day. The plain-language subject and the completion rate come from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Recalls Data dataset. How try.vin reads recall data.