Dometic recall: Equipment
What is wrong
Dometic Corporation (Dometic) is recalling certain 3 burner cooking stoves, with part numbers S31, R1731 and R2131. The saddle valve securing bolt may be overtightened, possibly damaging the o-ring seal and causing a continuous gas leak.
What could happen
A gas leak can increase the risk of a fire.
The fix
Dometic will notify vehicle manufacturers, and owners, dealers will install a remedy kit of gaskets, washers, thread locker bolts, and two round orange labels, free of charge. The recall began November 13, 2020. Owners may contact Dometic customer service at 1-888-943-4905.
Vehicles covered
- Dometic Cooking Stove
Facts
- NHTSA recall number
- 20E071000
- Type
- Equipment
- Filed by
- Dometic Corporation
- Reported to NHTSA
- Sep 24, 2020
- Owners notified
- Nov 13, 2020
- Vehicles or items affected
- 47,159
- Started by
- The manufacturer
- Built
- –
- Part
- Equipment › Appliance › Oven/stove/cooktop; Equipment › Recreational vehicle/trailer › Lpg systems
Notes
Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov. Please be reminded of the following requirements:You are required to submit a draft owner notification letter to this office no less than five days prior to mailing it to the customers.Also, copies of all notices, bulletins, dealer notifications, and other communications that relate to this recall, including a copy of the final owner notification letter and any subsequent owner follow-up notification letter(s), are required to be submitted to this office no later than 5 days after they are originally sent (if they are sent to more than one manufacturer, distributor, dealer, or purchaser/owner).Please be reminded that under 49 U.S.C. § 30112(a)(3), it is illegal for a manufacturer, to sell, offer for sale, import, or introduce or deliver into interstate commerce, a motor vehicle or item of motor vehicle equipment that contains a safety defect once the manufacturer has notified NHTSA about that safety defect.This prohibition does not apply once the motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment has been remedied according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Other recalls for the same vehicles
- Dometic recall: Equipment Mar 18, 2022
- Adventurer / Dometic recall: Equipment Jun 2, 2021
- Bigfoot / Dometic recall: Equipment Feb 3, 2021
- Bigfoot / Dometic recall: Equipment Feb 3, 2021
To check one car, enter its 17-character VIN on the official NHTSA page: a recall may cover only some vehicles of a model year.
Recall data: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Nebula is not affiliated with or endorsed by NHTSA.