Recall Register

Champion Defender: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 26 recall campaigns for the Champion Defender, model years 1999 to 2019. NHTSA has no complaint on file for this model line. 18 of the 21 model years have a page on this register.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19991
  2. 20003
  3. 20013
  4. 20022
  5. 20032
  6. 20042
  7. 20054
  8. 20065
  9. 200710
  10. 200811
  11. 20099
  12. 20107
  13. 20113
  14. 20124
  15. 20135
  16. 20146
  17. 20154
  18. 20161
  19. 20172
  20. 20182
  21. 20191
Champion Defender: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2019 Champion Defender NHTSA page10362
2018 Champion Defender20295
2017 Champion Defender20295
2016 Champion Defender NHTSA page10219
2015 Champion Defender403,543
2014 Champion Defender605,545
2013 Champion Defender505,377
2012 Champion Defender403,559
2011 Champion Defender303,165
2010 Champion Defender705,554
2009 Champion Defender905,629
2008 Champion Defender1105,818
2007 Champion Defender1004,268
2006 Champion Defender503,656
2005 Champion Defender401,049
2004 Champion Defender20267
2003 Champion Defender20300
2002 Champion Defender201,783
2001 Champion Defender302,382
2000 Champion Defender302,382
1999 Champion Defender NHTSA page10599

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

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

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

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

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Champion Defender, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2008, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Champion Defender, by the year NHTSA received them.

Other model lines of the make

Champion: all 23 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Champion Defender: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/champion/defender/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
CHAMPION BUS, INC.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Champion Defender model years have the most recall campaigns?
2008 with 11, 2007 with 10, 2009 with 9. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Champion Defender model year has the most complaints?
The NHTSA complaint file has no complaint for this model line.