NHTSA EQ EQ10006

On May 11, 2010, Skyline Corporation notified the NHTSA that it had decided certain model year 2004-2007 Skyline Park Model trailers contain a safety related defect.Skyline stated that certain trailers were originally equipped with Dimplex electric fireplaces containing a plug-in remote control receiver that can overheat, possibly causing a fire.NHTSA assigned recall number 10V-201 to this matter.In early May 2010, Thor Industries contacted the Recall Management Division (RMD) regarding the use of these Dimplex fireplaces in several of its recreational vehicles.Upon initial contact with Dimplex, it was learned that these fireplaces were sold through a distributor that may sell them to many other recreational vehicle manufacturers to be installed as original equipment.Dimplexissued a recall with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (#10-167) for 700,000 units.In May 2010 RMD informed Dimplex of its responsibilities under 49 CFR 573 as to its obligations to conduct a safety recall for the original equipment used in motor vehicles by more than one vehicle manufacturer.Dimplex submitted its Part 573 Report (10E-027) on June 6, 2010, identifying a total 25,000 defective units sold to its distributor, WESCO International, Inc. (WESCO).On July 6, 2010, RMD mailed WESCO an Information Request (IR) letter requesting a full list of customers that were sold these recalled fireplaces.WESCO responded on July 23, 2010, with a listing of 162 companies that were further sold this equipment.After parsing out closed companies from the list and those known to RMD not to further distribute motor vehicle equipment or manufacture vehicles, RMD contacted a total of 40 companies with IR letters mailed on August 31, 2010.On November 1, 2010, RMD mailed a second round of IR letters to 14 companies that had not yet responded to the first letter.By the end of December 2010, another 2 IR letters were mailed to Wray Brothers and Rexhall Industries, as they had still not responded to RMD's