NHTSA Complaint #10157085 — 2000 HOLIDAY RAMBLER AMBASSADOR

REF: RECALL 02V278000 FRONT BRAKES OVERHEATED TO THE POINT OF SMOKING. CALIPERS WERE STICKING. PRIMARILY LT. FRONT. RT FRONT WAS OVERHEATED BUT NOT AS SEVERE. REARS OK. MONACO COACH CLAIMS RECALL REPAIR WAS PERFORMED AND RECALL IS CLOSED ON THIS VEHICLE. PER DISCUSSION WITH MONACO COACH RECALL HOTLINE REP. THE RECALL WORK,DONE IN SEPT OF 2004 DID NOT INCLUDE REPLACEMENT OF THE CALIPERS. IN MAY OF 2005 EXTENSIVE REPAIR WORK WAS AGAIN DONE ON THE BRAKE SYSTEM (I HAVE A COPY OF THE RECEIPT) BUT AGAIN DID NOT INCLUDE CALIPER REPLACEMENT. I PURCHASED THE VEHICLE IN AUGUST OF 2005. SHORTLY AFTER THE PURCHASE I NOTED FRONT CALIPER OVERHEATING AND CONTACTED THE MONACO TECH LINE FOR INFO. THE OVERHEATING CONTINUED AND I HAD THE CALIPERS REPLACED BY A LOCAL SHOP IN PENSACOLA FLORIDA. THE BRAKE OVERHEATING HAS NOW BEEN ELIMINATED. VIRTUALLY EVERY SIGNIFICANT COMPONENT ON THE BRAKE SYSTEM HAD BEEN REPLACED AND THE OVERHEATING PROBLEM CONTINUED UNTIL THE CALIPERS WERE REPLACED. I AM QUESTIONING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE FIELD INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO THE INDEPENDENT REPAIR SHOPS TO RESOLVE THIS RECALL. "INSPECTION" OF THE CALIPERS DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A GUARANTEED RESOLUTION. MY BRAKE OVERHEATING PROBLEM WAS NOT RESOLVED UNTIL THE CALIPERS WERE REPLACED. I REPLACED THEM PRIOR TO ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THIS RECALL. IN CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MONACO TECHS. NO MENTION WAS MADE OF THE RECALL OR POTENTIAL CALIPER PROBLEMS. I FOUND OUT ABOUT THE RECALL IN A INTERNET SEARCH ON MY VEHICLES. *NM