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Fontaine Trailer

Every Fontaine Trailer model year on file, 1997 to 2004. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years61 involved a crash, fire, injury or death
Model years81997 to 2004
Recall campaigns3Distinct campaigns listing it
Service bulletins6Summed across model years
By model year

The 1999 model year drew the most complaints, 3, 50% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

0123199719981999320002001200220032004
Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.
Components

Electrical system leads the Fontaine Trailer complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Electrical system
1
Powertrain
1
Equipment
1
Trailer hitches
1
Tires
1
Suspension
1
Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.
Model years

The record for each Fontaine Trailer model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

Fontaine Trailer by model year
YearBodyComplaintsSeverity indexPeer indexRecallsInvestigationsBulletins
2004Not decoded0NoneNone102
2003Not decoded0NoneNone201
2002Not decoded0NoneNone201
2001Not decoded0NoneNone101
2000Not decoded10.0100100
1999Trailer30.0100101
1998Not decoded0NoneNone100
1997Trailer250.0100100
Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.
Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Fontaine Trailer

  • 04V-085 Feb 12, 2004
    On certain flatbed and flatbed with curtin side trailers equipped with webb wheel platinum series brake drums, these brake drums could crack on…
    Brakes · 30 vehicles
  • 03V-425 Oct 28, 2003
    On certain trailers equipped with bendix ec-30t electronic control units (ecu)
    Brakes · 67 vehicles
  • 98V-159 Jul 15, 1998
    Vehicle description: platform trailers equipped with king pins marked with cha, chn, & chp and supplied to fontaine by tefaco
    Trailer hitches · 50 vehicles
Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.