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2001 VOLKSWAGEN EUROVAN — Complaint #372425

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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER:LPG SYSTEMS filed September 6, 2002

NHTSA complaint #372425 (ODI reference 766697) concerns a 2001 VOLKSWAGEN EUROVAN and was filed on September 6, 2002. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 30, 2002. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:recreational vehicle/trailer:lpg systems, 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 VOLKSWAGEN EUROVAN cohort independently describe similar equipment:recreational vehicle/trailer:lpg systems 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 2001 VOLKSWAGEN EUROVAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2001 VOLKSWAGEN EUROVAN
Component
EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER:LPG SYSTEMS
State
Tennessee

Complaint Description

WHILE TRAVELING FORWARD AT ABOUT 2 MPH, THE PROPANE GAS PRESSURE REGULATOR BRACKET CAUGHT A SMALL RISE ON A PUBLIC STREET. THE GAS PRESSURE REGULATOR BRACKET BROKE FREE OF THE VEHICLE AND WAS FORCED BACKWARD INTO THE PROPANE STORAGE TANK. THE PROPANE STORAGE TANK RUPTURED AND IMMEDIATELY EXHAUSTED ABOUT 15 POUNDS OF PROPANE. THE PROPANE TANK OBSTRUCTS THE DESIGNATED JACKING POINT ON THE REAR DRIVER SIDE OF THE VEHICLE. I PLACED THE SUPPLIED JACK AS CLOSE TO THE JACKING POINT AS POSSIBLE AND PROCEEDED TO JACK UP THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE COLLAPSED ON THE JACK CAUSING VEHICLE BODY DAMAGE. I HAD JUST REMOVED MY HAND FROM UNDER THE VEHICLE WHILE RETRIEVING THE PRESSURE REGULATOR BRACKET. UPON INVESTIGATION I DISCOVERED THAT WINNEBAGO HAD FAILED TO SUPPLY A REPLACEMENT JACK AS DICTATED IN THE VOLKSWAGON OWNERS MANUAL.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 372425
ODI Number 766697
Date Filed September 6, 2002
Failure Date August 30, 2002
VIN WV2EB47041H

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.