NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Defect Petition DP15-008: Shasta Airflyte Safety Issues
- Closed
NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation opened Defect Petition DP15-008 on December 4, 2015 and closed it on June 28, 2016. NHTSA's investigations file lists the 2015 Forest River Shasta for it and links recall 16V-218 to it.
Updated daily from NHTSA's investigations file
Key facts
- NHTSA number
- DP15-008 (also written DP15008)
- Investigation type
- Defect Petition A petition asking NHTSA to open a defect investigation; NHTSA grants or denies it, and granting one opens an investigation.
- Status
- Closed June 28, 2016
- Opened
- Closed
- Vehicle or equipment manufacturer
- Forest River, Inc.
- Components
- Latches/Locks/Linkages — Doors — Latch; Structure; Suspension; Tires; Visibility — Glass, Side/Rear
- Recall linked by NHTSA
- 16V-218: Dinette Table May Fall Due to Inadequate Support, reported
- Vehicles and equipment
- 2015 Forest River Shasta
NHTSA's summary
As NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation wrote it for Defect Petition DP15-008.
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The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened this investigation after receipt of Defect Petition ES15-004654.
The petition alleged eleven (11) separate issues.
Six (6) of the issues related to vehicle design or construction.
The other five (5) related to corporate safety culture.
ODI considered each issue separately during it's evaluation.
An outline of the issues follows.
Additional details are included in the attached Evaluation Report.
Four (4) issues were addressed with recalls: Window failuresRecall 15V-553 Wheel well/Suspension/RimsRecall 15V-552 Passenger tire failures Recall 15V-369 Dinette bed failures Recall 16V-218One (1) issue was addressed with a Technical Service Bulletin (TSB). Body separation from frame.
OEM TSB # 53-05112016-0191.
One (1) issue, Door Lock Failures, was not considered a safety issue as NFPA Standard 1192 requires multiplemeans of egress.
The remaining five (5) issues, listed below, were either directly or indirectly addressed by a Consent Order issued July 8, 2015. (1) Questionable record keeping practices on serious defects (2) Shasta & Dealer dismissing safety concerns reported by owners (3) No proactive plans to address known defects (4) Poor service management practices, owners have no support (5) Barriers [to customer feedback]This investigation is closed. The agency is actively involved with Forest Riverto improve its corporate safety culture and reserves the right to take further action if warranted.
The ODI reports cited above can be reviewed at: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchNHTSAID under the following complaint identification numbers:10715617, 10716585, 10716724, 10716729, 10716759, 10716854, 10717124, 10717213, 10717214, 10717217, 10717218, 10721743, 10721784, 10721793, 10721800, 10721913, 10722087, 10722308, 10730470, 10733176, 10733186, 10734026, 10735477, 10744818, 10745868,10758568, 10758570, 10758572, 10758578, 10758579, 10758582, 10758584, 10758587, 10758591, 10758593, 10759735, 10785358, 10786649, 10786660, 10846348, 10854917
Vehicles and equipment listed for this investigation
NHTSA's investigations file lists these vehicles and equipment for Defect Petition DP15-008. A listed model year means only that an investigation names it; it says nothing about any particular vehicle. Model years with a try.vin recall page link to that page's NHTSA investigations section.
Forest River
Forest River Shasta
What an NHTSA investigation is
NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) looks into possible safety defects in vehicles and equipment, often after owner complaints. An investigation usually starts as a Preliminary Evaluation, or as a Recall Query when it concerns whether an existing recall covers the right vehicles or fixes the problem, and ODI can upgrade it to a more detailed Engineering Analysis. A Defect Petition asks NHTSA to open an investigation, and Audit and Equipment Queries are administrative investigations into whether companies complied with federal vehicle safety requirements, such as reporting, recall and certification rules.
An open investigation is not a finding that a safety defect exists, and NHTSA can close one without a recall.
To see whether a specific vehicle has an open recall, enter its VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.
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Sources
NHTSA's investigation record for DP15-008
Investigation details come from NHTSA's investigations file, which try.vin imports once a day. The investigation types are described from the U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General's May 2023 report on NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation, NHTSA's petition rules (49 CFR Parts 552 and 557) and NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation procedures. How try.vin reads NHTSA investigations.