Investigation PE05048: 2004–2005 Exiss Horse Trailer

Status

CLOSED

Opened

Sep 2, 2005

Closed

Dec 8, 2005

Model years

2004–2005

Subject

Wheel separations

Component: Wheels

Summary

Odi opened pe05-048 after learning of an august 11, 2005, wheel separation incident from a model year 2005 exiss model se-422 trailerequipped with aluminum wheels.this incident occurred one day after the vehicle had been purchased.this would appear to be a production line quality assurance problem, given the very short length of field service.on septemebr 12, 2005, exiss reported that a wheel separation incident had occurred from a model year 2003 model sport 307lq trailer on september 10, 2005 (canadian owner).during the investigation exiss identified several recently implemented or planned initiatives intended to improve the quality and consistency of the wheel installation and torquing process at the plant.due to the low failure rate, odi is closing this pe and initiating a twelve-month monitoring program (I.e.,until december, 2006) that will require exiss to report all newly reported wheel separations from exiss vehicles to odi.

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