Thor Hurricane 2015

• Recall 131247 [USA]: In the event of a fire, if the fire extinguisher does not function properly, it can increase the risk of injury.
  Thor motor coach (thor) is recalling various 2003-2018 recreational vehicles, equipped with kidde plastic-handle or push button 'pindicator' fire extinguishers. See a list of the affected trailer models at: https://static.Nhtsa.Gov/odi/rcl/2017/rmisc-17v758-5764.Pdf. These extinguishers may become clogged, preventing the extinguisher from discharging as expected or excessive force may be needed to activate the extinguisher. Additionally, in certain models, the nozzle may detach from the valve assembly with enough force that it could cause injury and also render the product inoperable. For a full list of the affected fire extinguisher models visit: https://static.Nhtsa.Gov/odi/rcl/2017/rmisc-17e062-5427.Pdf
  thor will notify owners, instructing them to contact kidde for a replacement fire extinguisher, free of charge. The recall began on january 15, 2018. Owners may contact thor customer service at 1-877-500-1020, or kidde customer service toll-free at 1-855-262-3540, or online at www.Kidde.Com and click on "product safety recall" for more information.
  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.

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• Recall 136245 [USA]: If the windshield wipers cannot be used, driver visibility would be reduced, increasing the risk of a crash.
  Thor motor coach (tmc) is recalling certain 2014-2016 ace, challenger, daybreak, hurricane, miramar, outlaw, windsport, palazzo, tuscany, and tuscany xte motorhomes. The windshield wipers may fail due to the system being incorrectly installed or secured.
  tmc will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the wiper system to verify it is installed correctly, repairing or replacing the system as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on september 27, 2017. Owners may contact tmc customer service at 1-877-855-2867. Tmc's number for this recall is rC000146. Note: although some of the vehicles included in this recall have previously been remedied under recalls 17v-096 or 17v-162, the vehicles may need additional repairs under this campaign.
  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.

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• Recall 125447 [USA]: Failure of the windshield wipers may impair the driver's visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
  Thor motor coach (tmc) is recalling certain 2014-2015 ace, hurricane, challenger, daybreak, miramar, outlaw, and windsport motorhomes. These vehicles have windshield wiper systems that may have been improperly installed and secured, possibly causing the wipers to fail during use.
  tmc has notified owners, and dealers will inspect and tighten the wiper arm securing nuts, free of charge. The recall began on may 5, 2017. Owners may contact tmc customer service at 1-877-855-2867.
  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.

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• Recall 111795 [USA]: Heat build-up in the vehicle storage compartment increases the risk of fire.
  Thor motor coach (tmc) is recalling certain model year 2014-2016 hurricane and windsport motor homes manufactured january 30, 2013, to march 6, 2015. In the affected motor homes, the vehicle exhaust is located near a storage compartment where heat may build-up, causing the compartment to melt.
  tmc will notify owners, and dealers will install a heat shield to prevent heat build-up in the storage compartment. The recall began on april 20, 2016. Owners may contact tmc customer service at 1-877-855-2867. Tmc's number for this recall is rC000112.
  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.

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• Recall 113351 [USA]: Unstable entry and exit steps increase the risk of injury.
  Thor motor coach (thor) is recalling certain model year 2011-2016 thor challenger, thor citation, thor hurricane, thor tuscany, thor windsport, 2011-2012 thor astoria, thor avanti, thor chateau, 2011-2014 thor daybreak, 2011-2015 thor outlaw, thor siesta, 2014-2015 thor miramar, 2012 thor four winds, 2008-2011 damon astoria, damon daybreak, damon outlaw, damon tuscany, 2008-2012, damon challenger, 2008-2010 damon essence, 2009-2011 damon avanti, four winds chateau, four winds citation, four winds four winds, four winds hurricane, four winds siesta, four winds windsport, 2009-2010 four winds dorado, four winds dutchmen, four winds magellan, four winds mandalay and 2009 four winds fun mover, and four winds presidio motorhomes. The affected vehicles are equipped with certain lippert-brand coachstep double and triple electric steps. These steps use a bolt to attach the fan gear assembly to the steps. This bolt may fracture allowing the fan gear to disengage from the steps. As a result, the steps may not remain in the expected position and may be unstable.
  thor will notify owners, and dealers will install a retainer bracket to reinforce the operating mechanism and replace all of the affected bolts, free of charge. The recall began on january 6, 2016. Owners may contact thor customer service at 1-877-855-2867. Thor's number for this recall is rC000111.
  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.

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• Recall 117411 [USA]: The screws could fail, causing the supporting bracket to fail, and the awning to fall and potentially strike and injure a person beneath it.
  Thor motor coach (tmc) is recalling certain model year 2015 challenger, four winds 5000, hurricane, miramar, chateau citation, chateau, windsport, and palazzo motorhomes manufactured april 24, 2014, to december 11, 2014, and equipped with certain latitude awnings manufactured by carefree of colorado. The affected awnings may have screws that attach the lateral arm brackets to the mounting brackets that were not manufactured to specification.
  tmc will notify owners, and dealers will remove and replace the defective screws, free of charge. The recall began january 23, 2015. Owners may contact tmc customer service at 1-877-500-1020. Tmc's number for this recall is rC000097.
  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.

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• Recall 113784 [USA]: If an awning falls, there is an increased risk of injury to anyone under the awning.
  Thor motor coach (thor) is recalling certain model year 2015 four winds 5000, hurricane, miramar, chateau citation, chateau, four winds siesta, windsport, and freedom elite motorhomes manufactured august 7, 2014, to october 17, 2014. The affected motorhomes have awnings whose mounting brackets may crack, and the awnings may fall.
  thor has notified owners, and dealers will replace the defective mounting brackets, free of charge. The recall began on november 10, 2014. Owners may contact thor customer service at 1-877-855-2867. Thor's number for this recall is rC000095.
  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.

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• Recall 2017613 [Canada]: Accessories
  On certain motorhomes equipped with kidde fire extinguishers with black plastic handles and valves, the fire extinguishers may become clogged or require excessive force to activate. Also, the nozzle may detach from the valve assembly with enough force that it could cause injury, and fail to discharge. In case of fire, failure of the extinguisher to function could result in injury and/or property damage. Correction: owners will be provided with instructions on how to inspect the fire extinguisher to see if it is recalled. Replacement fire extinguishers will be supplied by kidde directly. Note: for more information about recalled fire extinguishers, please visit www.Kidde.Com.

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• Recall 2017434 [Canada]: Visual system
  On certain motorhomes, the windshield wiper system may have been incorrectly installed and secured. This could result in the wiper system being loose, which could limit the driver’s visibility under certain conditions which may increase the risk of a crash causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: dealers will inspect the wiper system to verify that the original recall repair was completed correctly, and will repair as necessary. Note: this recall supersedes recalls 2017-078 and 2017-172. A portion of vehicles repaired under the previous recall will require re-inspection and repair.

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• Recall 2017172 [Canada]: Visual system
  On certain motorhomes, the windshield wiper system may have been incorrectly installed and secured. This could result in the wiper system being loose, which could limit the driver’s visibility under certain conditions which may increase the risk of a crash causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: dealers will inspect the wiper system for correct installation, and if required, the wiper nut(s) will be tightened to specification.

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• Recall 2016114 [Canada]: Structure
  Certain motorhomes may have part of the exhaust pipe running too close to a vehicle storage compartment. The exhaust should have a heat shield in this area, as without one, the heat would not be properly dissipated around the exhaust of the vehicle. This would increase the risk of melting and/or a fire, which could result in injury and/or damage to property. Correction: dealers will install a heat shield to protect the storage compartment.

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• Recall 2015529 [Canada]: Structure
  On certain motorhomes equipped with lippert components inc. Electric entry steps, an internal bolt on the steps that attaches the fan gear assembly to the steps could fracture. This results in the fan gear disengaging from the steps, which could cause the steps to stop in an unexpected position and appear to be loose or unstable. If the steps become unstable, it could cause a person to fall, resulting in injury. Correction: dealers will install a step retainer bracket to reinforce the operating mechanism, and all bolts of the mechanism will also be replaced.

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• Recall 2014493 [Canada]: Accessories
  On certain motorhomes outfitted with carefree awnings, the mounting bracket that secures the awning to the motorhome can crack and break apart. If the mounting bracket were to break apart, the awning can collapse, which could strike another vehicle, a stationary object, or a bystander, causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: dealers will remove and replace the mounting brackets.

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• Trimark 060-1650 door latch failures investigation # PE20021

  The office of defects (odi) is opening this preliminary evaluation (pe) on trimark 060-1650 model door latches manufactured with zinc plunger bolts from calendar year 2013 to 2016. Odi has received forty-six vehicle owner’s questionnaires (voqs) alleging door latch failures. Many of the failures describe consumers being locked in our out of their vehicles. The plunger bolt, made of zinc during the affected manufacturing years, becomes porous and brittle over time and can break without warning, resulting in the lock-in/lock-out condition. Additionally, the plastic bushing, which is needed to reduce friction between the drive elements and keep the latch release efforts smooth and low, can break and jam the lock to an inoperable state. Through communications with trimark, odi learned that these door latch failures are widespread across original equipment door manufacturers and different final stage vehicle manufacturers that use the 060-1650 model latch. This investigation has been opened to understand the frequency of latch failure and whether the failures are universal across the industry or limited to certain final stage manufacturers in specific vehicle applications.The odi reports cited above can be reviewed at: http://www-odi.Nhtsa.Dot.Gov/owners/searchnhtsaid using the following complaint identification numbers: 11111891, 11312165, 11352178, 11040852, 11110475, 11118508, 11228739, 11228739, 11230464, 11230464, 11278257, 11343363, 11016475, 11088692, 11089428, 11099251, 11110381, 11110431, 11128222, 11130238, 11132271, 11149731, 11180695, 11265710, 11302531, 11340907, 10929929, 11021492, 11021705, 11030206, 11032978, 11090292, 11098056, 11128128, 11160521, 11300826, 11078987, 11081911, 11104930, 11342532, 11143346, 11277308, 11364743, 11365145, 11321971, 11327052.
  

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The entrance lock falled leaving occupant locked out of motorhome. Had to pry lock from door. Persons could have been locked inside...Vehicle was parked. If vehicle had been in an accident then the occupants would have been locked inside without an escape route...

Tl* the contact owns a 2015 thor hurricane. While driving 40 mph in the rain with the windshield wipers activated, the passenger side wiper became detached. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The contact stated that the failure was related to an unknown manufacturer safety recall. The dealer (thor motor coach, 2700 s nappanee st, elkhart, in 46517, (800) 860-5658) was contacted, but was unable to assist. The manufacturer was not notified. The failure mileage was 13,000.

Upon driving noticed a burning smell form underneath motorhome. Opened side compartment to find melting, burning plastic inside dripping onto unprotected un shielded exhaust system. If anything was stored inside this compartment it would of fueled a much larger more dangerous fire.

Onan generator stop after operating for 1 or 2 hours while driving down the road. Generator reports error code 36, apparently overheating is the reason. Thor and onan are pointing at each other as to who is responsible. Onan generator is rated to operate up to 120f, but fails when temperature outside is below 100 and the vehicle is moving, which should result in some cooling effect to counter the effect of the hot road surface and rv engine heat. Interior of rv, specially in longer units can not maintain a safe temperature for passengers with only the engine a/c unit. Generator runs fine for 24 hours in 100+ degree weather when the rv is stationary and the generator is running on full load (2 roof mounted a/c units). After a 1 hour stop at a rest area with rv engine running still to keep rv a/c on, the generator will start up again and will work fine until you start driving again, with-in 30 minutes it will shut down again. Many people are complaining of similar experience with onan suggesting you remove the door of the generator compartment, which itself may be a safety hazard. Rv manufacturers claim they are installing the unit according to onan's specs. Some rv owners suggest onan is avoiding a recall by proposing solutions like no compartment door to rv owners.

Tl* the contact owns a 2015 thor hurricane. The contact stated that there were progressing failures with an electrical current flowing through the motor home. The current impacted the metal components in the vehicle and caused a shock. The contact experienced the failure while at a campground electrical station and with the home electrical port. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for inspection to determine the cause of the failure. The contact also stated that the awning did not retract properly, causing the contact to make a manual adjustment due to the failure. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and provided no remedy. The approximate failure mileage was 6,100.

Front end clunking on the motorcoach. Ford had to inspect vehicle to find a "loose upper shock bolt". *tr

The subject vehicle has adverse drivability and unsafe to drive above 55 mph (excessive vibrations, excessive swaying, excessive bouncing, harsh ride, lack of stability, wind drift, listing etc.). Supporting documentation is available. *tr

Common OBD-II Error Codes

• C0001 [3] TCS Control Channel "A" Valve 1 (Subfault)
• C0000 [2] Vehicle Speed Information Circuit Invalid Data