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Equipment Query EQ17-002: Close Equipment Query

  • Closed

NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation opened Equipment Query EQ17-002 on July 21, 2017 and closed it on July 2, 2019. NHTSA's investigations file lists 7 Jayco models for it and links recall 17E-046 to it.

Updated daily from NHTSA's investigations file

Key facts

NHTSA number
EQ17-002 (also written EQ17002)
Investigation type
Equipment Query An administrative investigation that reviews recall reports to confirm that the equipment suppliers and vehicle manufacturers involved in an equipment recall have filed the recall reports required of them.
Status
Closed July 2, 2019
Opened
Closed
Vehicle or equipment manufacturer
Jayco, Inc.
Component
Interior Lighting
Recall linked by NHTSA
Vehicles and equipment
7 Jayco models, including the Hummingbird and Jay Feather

NHTSA's summary

As NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation wrote it for Equipment Query EQ17-002.

June 5, 2017, Jayco, Inc. (Jayco) notified NHTSA of a safety-related defect in certain 2017 Jay Flight Bungalow, Hummingbird, White Hawk, Jay Flight SLX, Jay Feather 7, Jay Feather and Jay Flight fifth wheel recreational trailers. A recall, 17V-290 was filed. According to the Report, the trailers are equipped with LED ceiling lights that produce extreme high temperature during normal use which may cause light failure. Some of the failure characteristics noted are melting of the plastic housing, smoldering, and charred and scorched ceiling panels. The excessive heat from the LED ceiling lights may increase the risk of a fire.

Jayco identified Command Electronics, Inc. (Command) as the supplier of the ceiling lights. Command has indicated that it supplied the same component to other manufacturers, but has not yet filed a defect information report in accordance with 49 C.F.R. ?573.3(f).

RMD opened EQ investigation in 07/21/2017 to obtain information regarding the additional manufacturers that were supplied with the component identified by Jayco, and to determine whether additional safety recalls are required by any of those identified companies.

Two years past, RMD found not enough evidences that the same LED ceiling lights would produce extreme high temperature during normal use from other users beside Jayco, Inc. RMD is satisfied with findings. Accordingly, this EQ is closed.

Vehicles and equipment listed for this investigation

NHTSA's investigations file lists these vehicles and equipment for Equipment Query EQ17-002. 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.

Jayco

  • Jayco Hummingbird

    • 2017

  • Jayco Jay Feather

  • Jayco Jay Feather 7

    • 2017

  • Jayco Jay Flight

  • Jayco Jay Flight Bungalow

  • Jayco Jay Flight SLX

    • 2017

  • Jayco White Hawk

All Jayco recalls

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 EQ17-002

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.