# Service bulletin RSB 460

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10084016
- Published by NHTSA: 2016\-11\-07
- Manufacturer's number: RSB 460
- Manufacturer's date: 2016\-08\-18
- NHTSA component: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM

## NHTSA's summary

SPARTAN MOTORS HAS DECIDED THAT A DEFECT WHICH RELATES TO MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY EXISTS IN SPECIFIC MOTOR HOMES BUILT ON SPARTAN CHASSIS AND IN RESPONSE NEWMAR IS PUBLISHING RECALL NHTSA\# 16V 501 TC\# 2016\-342. ON CERTAIN MOTORHOMES, THE EXHAUST FLEX TUBE MAY BE MISALIGNED CAUSING THE POTENTIAL FOR THE FLEX TUBE TO TEAR. IF THE EXHAUST TUBE TEARS, HOT EXHAUST GAS COULD BLOW AGAINST OTHER COMPONENTS OR MATERIALS. IF EXHAUST GAS TEMPERATURES EXCEED THE FLASH POINT OF OTHER MATERIAL OR COMPONENTS, IT COULD INCREASE THE RISK OF FIRE CAUSING INJURY AND/OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. THIS MAY OCCUR WITHOUT WARNING.

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Engine, Exhaust and emissions

## Vehicles listed

- 2008 to 2009 NEWMAR ALL STAR
- 2009 to 2010 NEWMAR DUTCH AIRE DP
- 2008 to 2010 NEWMAR DUTCH STAR
- 2015 NEWMAR ESSEX
- 2014 to 2015 NEWMAR KING AIRE
- 2008 NEWMAR KOUNTRY STAR
- 2008 to 2009 NEWMAR VENTANA

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