Recall Register

Caravelle: tire recalls

NHTSA lists 3 tire recall campaigns for Caravelle. NHTSA received the reports from 1974 to 1978. The campaigns have 14,512,811 units in total. The newest campaign is 78T031000. NHTSA received the report on 11 Dec 1978.

NHTSA recall lookup

The defect, the consequence and the remedy on this page are the summaries in the NHTSA recall file. The file names the manufacturer that filed each recall report.

NHTSA recall file through .

Recall campaigns

3 campaigns, newest first. 14,512,811 units in total.

  1. 78T031000Received . 14,500,000 units.

    Tires

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    The involved tires may fail in service without prior warning.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Dealer will install replacement tires that will be mounted and balanced free of charge within 60 days of recall notification.

    Products named: National FR7814; Seiberling BR7813; Shell JR7815; Lemans JR7815; Holiday Rambler HR7815; Kmart HR7815; Ward HR7815; Union 76 HR7815; Seiberling HR7814; Union 76 GR7815; National GR7815; Atlas HR7814, and 100 more.

    Report filed by FIRESTONE TIRE AND RUBBER. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

  2. 78T002000Received . 1,351 units.

    Tires

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    The involved tires fail to comply to federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 109, "new pneumatic tires". The tires have insufficient inner liner thickness which may allow ply or tread separation to take place. This could lead to air loss.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    The involved tires will be replaced free of charge by the dealer, within 60 days of recall notification.

    Products named: Spartan G7814; Brunswick G7814; Caravelle G7814; JC Penney G7814; Stratton G7814; Gator G7814; Hood G7814; Diamond Reo G7814; Miller G7814; Fed Mart G7814; B.F.Goodrich G7814; Regal XL G7814.

    Report filed by UNIROYAL GOODRICH TIRE CO. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

  3. 74T019000Received . 11,460 units.

    Tires / Tread/Belt

    Products named: Javelin 110020; Caravelle 110020; Award 110020; Seiberling 100020; Zenith 100020; Award 100020; Caravelle 100020; JTW 100020; Zenith 110020; JTW 110020; Javelin 100020.

    Report filed by SEIBERLING TIRE & RUBBER.

The campaign number opens the NHTSA record.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Counts

Caravelle tire campaigns, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1978, with 2 campaigns.
Caravelle: campaigns for each component
ComponentCampaigns
Tires2
Tread/Belt1

Products in the campaigns

The product names in the NHTSA file.

  • 1000201
  • 1100201
  • BR78131
  • ER78141
  • FR78141
  • G78141
  • GR78141
  • GR78151
  • HR78141
  • HR78151
  • JR78151
  • LR78151

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Caravelle: tire recalls. https://recallregister.com/equipment/tires/caravelle/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026

Manufacturers in the recall file: FIRESTONE TIRE AND RUBBER; SEIBERLING TIRE & RUBBER; UNIROYAL GOODRICH TIRE CO.

The brand is the make that NHTSA records for the campaign. A campaign that names 2 brands is on the page of each brand. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Caravelle products do the campaigns name?
The NHTSA records have 12 product names for these campaigns. The name in the most campaigns is: 100020
How many units does a Caravelle tire campaign have?
The median Caravelle campaign has 11,460 units. The median of all 788 tire campaigns is 1,205 units.
Which component do the Caravelle campaigns name most often?
Tires, in 2 campaigns. The component is the first component in the NHTSA record of a campaign.