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Great Dane Reefer

Every Great Dane Reefer model year on file, 2007 to 2020. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years11 involved a crash, fire, injury or death

Model years112007 to 2020

Recall campaigns5Distinct campaigns listing it

Service bulletins18Summed across model years

By model year

The 2017 model year drew the most complaints, 1, 100% of the model's total

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

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

Components

Structure leads the Great Dane Reefer complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Structure

Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.

Model years

The record for each Great Dane Reefer 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.

Great Dane Reefer by model year
Year	Body	Complaints	Severity index	Peer index	Recalls	Bulletins
2020	Not decoded	0	None	None	0	1
2019	Not decoded	0	None	None	0	2
2018	Not decoded	0	None	None	0	1
2017	Trailer	1	100.0	50	1	0
2016	Not decoded	0	None	None	2	6
2015	Not decoded	0	None	None	3	5
2014	Not decoded	0	None	None	0	1
2013	Not decoded	0	None	None	0	1
2012	Not decoded	0	None	None	0	1
2011	Not decoded	0	None	None	1	0
2007	Not decoded	0	None	None	1	0

Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.

Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Great Dane Reefer

16V-476 Jun 28, 2016
These valves may have been improperly machined which may cause a delay of application of the spring brakes while parking
Brakes · 14k vehicles
15V-841 Dec 15, 2015
Affected axle assemblies have caliper bolts that may not have been properly tightened, allowing the caliper mounting bolts to back out and the…
Brakes · 63 vehicles
15V-023 Jan 22, 2015
Affected actuators may have an incomplete attachment of the internal rubber diaphragm to the actuation mechanism of the parking brake section of…
Brakes · 7,702 vehicles
11V-216 Apr 1, 2011
Due to an incomplete "knitting" of the iron at the time of casting, inadequate structural integrity of the slack adjuster housing can occur, which…
Brakes · 56 vehicles
06V-448 Nov 28, 2006
On certain trailers, during manufacture, some of the pipe fittings were drilled too deep, resulting in a thin wall in the male pipe thread
Brakes · 5,671 vehicles

Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.