2015 MERCEDES-BENZ SPRINTER 3500 — Complaint #1428007
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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER filed November 27, 2017
NHTSA complaint #1428007 (ODI reference 11048545) concerns a 2015 MERCEDES-BENZ SPRINTER 3500 and was filed on November 27, 2017. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 22, 2017. The report was geocoded to Kentucky based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:recreational vehicle/trailer, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same MERCEDES-BENZ SPRINTER 3500 cohort independently describe similar equipment:recreational vehicle/trailer failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2015 MERCEDES-BENZ SPRINTER 3500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
CURRENT ISSUE AND PAST PROBLEMS WITH THE PROPANE SYSTEM. ON MY 2015 WINNEBAGO ERA. IT CONTINUES TO VENT ENTIRE PROPANE TANK INSPIT OF THREE PRIOR ATTEMPTS BY WINNABAGO DEALERS EFFORTS TO FIX PROBLEM. *BF AFTER I FINALLY GOT MY VEHICLE IN AUGUST 18. I USED IT ON A FOUR DAY TRIP TO SEE THE ECLIPSE. SINCE THEN I HAVE TAKEN IT FOR A RIDE TWICE A MONTH AND I RAN THE GENERATOR THREE TIMES, AS INSTRUCTIONS DICTATE. PROPANE TANK SHOWED NEARLY FULL THREE WEEKS AGO. LAST WEEK I SMELT PROPANE GAS COMING FROM UNDER THE VEHICLE IN MY DRIVE WAY. AS A VOLUNTEER FIREMAN I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT IGNITION AT THE SOURCE SO I CLEARED THE AREA. AFTER A FEW HOURS THERE IS NO MORE SIGN OR SMELL OF PROPANE, HOWEVER, THE SYSTEM PANEL SHOWS THE PROPANE TANK IS EMPTY. EVEN THOUGH THE SERVICE SHUT-OFF VALVE WAS CLOSED. THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I HAVE HAD AN ISSUE WITH THE PROPANE SYSTEM 1) RECALL, 2) THE LAST PROPANE SYSTEM BLOW OUT WHILE CAMPING, 10 WEEKS AGO AND 3) NOW. COLERAIN RV CI
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1428007 |
| ODI Number | 11048545 |
| Date Filed | November 27, 2017 |
| Failure Date | November 22, 2017 |
| VIN | WDAPF4CC9F5 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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