Recall Register

1998 Fleetwood Flair: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the 1998 Fleetwood Flair. The newest campaign is 07V120000. NHTSA received the report on 19 Mar 2007. The NHTSA record gives the component Equipment / Recreational Vehicle/Trailer. NHTSA has 3 complaints on file for this model year.

The NHTSA recall file shows no do-not-drive advisory and no park-outside advisory on these campaigns.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

Remedy of the newest campaign, 07V120000, in the NHTSA record

Fleetwood will be working with dometic in order to repair these refrigerators (please see 06e076). Dometic will repair these refrigerators by installing a secondary burn housing, a thermal fuse, and a melt fuse free of charge. Dometic has retained stericycle INC. To manage this campaign. Stericycle will assist you in locating dealerships or service centers and will provide assistance with scheduling of appointments. Owners may contact dometic/stericycle at 1-888-446-5157 or fleetwood at 1-800-322-8216.
NHTSA VIN lookup

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.

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Recall campaigns

3 campaigns, newest first. 168,198 units in total.

  1. 07V120000Received . 167,096 units.

    Equipment / Recreational Vehicle/Trailer

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    Certain motor homes and travel trailers equipped with a two-door refrigerator, manufactured by the dometic corporation, may have a defect in the boiler tube. Pressurized coolant solution could be released into an area where an ignition source (gas flame) is present.
    Consequence, in the NHTSA record
    Release of coolant under certain conditions could ignite and result in a fire.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Fleetwood will be working with dometic in order to repair these refrigerators (please see 06e076). Dometic will repair these refrigerators by installing a secondary burn housing, a thermal fuse, and a melt fuse free of charge. Dometic has retained stericycle INC. To manage this campaign. Stericycle will assist you in locating dealerships or service centers and will provide assistance with scheduling of appointments. Owners may contact dometic/stericycle at 1-888-446-5157 or fleetwood at 1-800-322-8216.

    Report filed by FLEETWOOD ENTERPRISES, INC.. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

  2. 99V156000Received . 417 units.

    Trailer Hitches

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    Vehicle description: motor homes. The bolts holding the trailer hitch to the motor home frame are the incorrect length.
    Consequence, in the NHTSA record
    These bolts can loosen resulting in separation of the trailer hitch from the motor home.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Dealers will remove the existing bolts and replace with correctly sized nuts, lock washers, and bolts.

    Report filed by FLEETWOOD ENT., INC.. Manufacturer campaign number 90611. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

  3. 98V083000Received . 685 units.

    Electrical System / Wiring

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    Vehicle description: motor homes. Due to improper installation of electrical wires, the battery cables can contact the automatic transmission cooler fluid lines. The ignition switch and customer accessory wiring is undersized.
    Consequence, in the NHTSA record
    This condition can result in damage to the battery cable insulation, leading to an electrical short, and possibly a fire. The undersized wiring can result in the engine stopping with a resultant loss of power steering or power braking, leading to a possible crash.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Dealers will inspect and repair these vehicles, including replacement of any damaged wiring or other vehicular components.

    Report filed by FLEETWOOD ENT., INC.. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

The campaign number opens the NHTSA record. Each quotation is the text of the NHTSA recall file.

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

Complaints by component

3 complaints, 3 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1998 Fleetwood Flair: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Engine and Engine Cooling1
Trailer Hitches1
Visibility/Wiper1
Complaints that report a crash
0
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
0
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
10 Sep 2018

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1998 Fleetwood Flair, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1998, with 1 complaint.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

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

  1. 19892
  2. 19902
  3. 19910
  4. 19920
  5. 19931
  6. 19942
  7. 19951
  8. 19960
  9. 19972
  10. 19983
  11. 19991
  12. 20003
  13. 20014
  14. 20024
  15. 20036
  16. 20047
  17. 20054
  18. 20065
  19. 20072
  20. 20081
  21. 20150
  22. 20162
  23. 20173
  24. 20184
  25. 20195
  26. 20204
  27. 20215
  28. 20225
  29. 20235
  30. 20243
  31. 20252
  32. 20261

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1998 Fleetwood Flair: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/fleetwood/flair/1998/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
FLEETWOOD ENTERPRISES, INC.

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Questions

How many units are in the recall campaigns for the 1998 Fleetwood Flair?
168,198 units in 3 campaigns. A campaign can name other models and model years, and its units include them.
How many recall campaigns does the Fleetwood Flair have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 37 recall campaigns for the Fleetwood Flair, model years 1989 to 2026. 3 of them name the 1998 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1998 Fleetwood Flair name most often?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 1 of 3 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1998 Fleetwood Flair open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.