Recall Register

Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer, model years 2009 to 2015. NHTSA has 123 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 5 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. 20090
  2. 20110
  3. 20130
  4. 20141
  5. 20151
Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2015 Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer NHTSA page100%96
2014 Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer NHTSA page114%96
2013 Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer059240%
2011 Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer NHTSA page01457%
2009 Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer049199%

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

123 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.

Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure1,000123

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2016, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2019, with 123 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/vanguard/dry-freight-van-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
Vanguard National Trailer Corporation

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 Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer model years have the most recall campaigns?
2015 with 1, 2014 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer model year has the most complaints?
The 2013 model year, with 59 of the 123 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Vanguard DRY Freight van Trailer name?
Structure: 1,000 per 1,000 component mentions.