Recall Register

Great Dane Trailer: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 21 recall campaigns for the Great Dane Trailer, model years 1987 to 2012. NHTSA has 21 complaints on file for this model line. 13 of the 25 model years have a page on this register.

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. 19871
  2. 19881
  3. 19891
  4. 19911
  5. 19921
  6. 19931
  7. 19943
  8. 19952
  9. 19964
  10. 19972
  11. 19985
  12. 19993
  13. 20005
  14. 20013
  15. 20021
  16. 20031
  17. 20041
  18. 20053
  19. 20063
  20. 20072
  21. 20081
  22. 20093
  23. 20101
  24. 20112
  25. 20121
Great Dane Trailer: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2012 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page100%320
2011 Great Dane Trailer200%743
2010 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page11119%320
2009 Great Dane Trailer31119%484
2008 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page100%121
2007 Great Dane Trailer21119%174
2006 Great Dane Trailer34476%883
2005 Great Dane Trailer31119%3,038
2004 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page11119%53
2003 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page100%5,890
2002 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page11119%5,890
2001 Great Dane Trailer31119%12,301
2000 Great Dane Trailer500%15,492
1999 Great Dane Trailer34476%271
1998 Great Dane Trailer52238%13,105
1997 Great Dane Trailer21119%308
1996 Great Dane Trailer400%5,079
1995 Great Dane Trailer200%4,331
1994 Great Dane Trailer32238%4,608
1993 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page100%277
1992 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page100%277
1991 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page100%277
1989 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page100%374
1988 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page100%374
1987 Great Dane Trailer NHTSA page11119%374

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.

Components in the complaints

23 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Great Dane Trailer: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Wheels217.45
Power Train173.94
Service Brakes, Air130.43
Structure130.43
Equipment872
Trailer Hitches43.51
Parking Brake43.51
Unknown or Other43.51
Suspension43.51
Electrical System43.51

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Great Dane Trailer, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2002, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Great Dane Trailer, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2007, with 4 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Great Dane: all 11 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Great Dane Trailer: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/great-dane/trailer/. 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
GREAT DANE TRAILERS, 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 Great Dane Trailer model years have the most recall campaigns?
2000 with 5, 1998 with 5, 1996 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Great Dane Trailer model year has the most complaints?
The 1999 model year, with 4 of the 21 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Great Dane Trailer name?
Wheels: 5 component mentions. Power Train: 4 component mentions. Service Brakes, Air: 3 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Great Dane Trailer?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.