Recall Register

Winnebago Chieftain: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 10 recall campaigns for the Winnebago Chieftain, model years 1994 to 2011. NHTSA has 22 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 17 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. 19941
  2. 19962
  3. 19972
  4. 19983
  5. 19993
  6. 20005
  7. 20014
  8. 20022
  9. 20032
  10. 20043
  11. 20053
  12. 20061
  13. 20071
  14. 20081
  15. 20091
  16. 20101
  17. 20111
Winnebago Chieftain: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2011 Winnebago Chieftain NHTSA page100%18,461
2010 Winnebago Chieftain NHTSA page100%18,461
2009 Winnebago Chieftain NHTSA page100%18,461
2008 Winnebago Chieftain NHTSA page100%18,461
2007 Winnebago Chieftain NHTSA page100%18,461
2006 Winnebago Chieftain NHTSA page100%18,461
2005 Winnebago Chieftain300%28,200
2004 Winnebago Chieftain300%28,200
2003 Winnebago Chieftain200%20,008
2002 Winnebago Chieftain2177%20,008
2001 Winnebago Chieftain400%25,308
2000 Winnebago Chieftain54309%30,942
1999 Winnebago Chieftain3131005%20,022
1998 Winnebago Chieftain34309%19,833
1997 Winnebago Chieftain200%19,092
1996 Winnebago Chieftain200%19,092
1994 Winnebago Chieftain NHTSA page100%10,590

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

25 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.

Winnebago Chieftain: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure2807
Equipment1203
Fuel System, Gasoline802
Parking Brake802
Tires802
Electrical System802
Steering802
Unknown or Other401
Service Brakes, Hydraulic401
Exterior Lighting401

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Winnebago Chieftain, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2004, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Winnebago Chieftain, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2002, with 4 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Winnebago: all 78 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Winnebago Chieftain: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/winnebago/chieftain/. 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
WINNEBAGO INDUSTRIES, 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 Winnebago Chieftain model years have the most recall campaigns?
2000 with 5, 2001 with 4, 2005 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Winnebago Chieftain model year has the most complaints?
The 1999 model year, with 13 of the 22 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Winnebago Chieftain name?
Structure: 7 component mentions. Equipment: 3 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 2 component mentions.