Itasca Itasca Problems by year

Tl*the contact owns a 1999 itasca sun cruiser. The contact stated that he received a recall notice for the vehicle speed control in september 2007. As of march 24, 2008, the parts were not available. The contact felt that the wait time for part was excessive. The current mileage was 58000 and there had been no failure to date.

Dt*: the contact stated the auto park button does not engage. While attempting to park the motor home, the column shift lever was maneuvered to the park position, however the auto park would not engage and the vehicle rolled forward. The contact quickly depressed the brake pedal to stop the vehicle without incident. Afterwards, while stopped and in drive the contact engaged the emergency brake. This time the vehicle rolled backwards. Once again the contact depressed the brake pedal and stopped the vehicle without incident. The dealer and manufacturer have not been alerted.

Dt: the contact stated while setting up the camper on motor home he noticed a green wire. Upon inspection he found that it was the ground wire to the propane tank. The bolts were missing that secured the propane tank to the motor home. He replaced the bolts and mounted the ground wire back in place. This seemed to have corrected the problem. *Ak

Dt: without warning in normal weather the treads came off tire and did some damage to motor home. It happened twice to both rear tires. Had one tire replaced, and used spare for the other, then he replaced spare tire. Dealer and manufacturer have not been contacted yet. *Ak as of june 6, 2005, firestone has been contacted and tires are on the way to the manufacturer.*Sb

Problems with tread separation with firestone steeltex tires. *Mr the consumer was requesting a re-investigating firestone steeltex tires. The steel belting had pulled away from the tread causing significant damage to the right rear of the coach, on two separate occasions, a tire was found shaped oddly/separating and was very hot to touch, and the last tire blewout on the left side and caused significant damage to the coach again and tore the gas line. *Sc *jb

Purchased new itasca motor home july 1999 has firestone steeltex radial 225/75r16 r4sii. Within first 18,000 right front tire blew off tread. Firestone says it was caused by "over inflation" next at 20,000 miles right rear tire threw tread. This time the tread completly separated in such a way that air was still left in the inner tire skin. Firestone blammed the failure on "shelf life of tire too old" this time we demanded new tires. Firestone installed 6 new at our expense. Less than 2,800 miles, the left rear tire blew out the tread and sidewall. Firestone says "it was your fault, the tire lost air and you drove on it" the last failure caused heavy propety damage.*Ak