2022 Highland Ridge Open Range Lite RL262RL, VIN [XXX], built 11/2021. Purchased new from Blue Dog RV, Hayden ID, XXX. Registered owner since XXX. We live in this trailer full time; it is our only housing. Three recalls cover this model year and line: 22V303000 (LP gas quick disconnect, 05/05/2022), 22V573000 (awning, 08/04/202…
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2022 Highland Ridge Open Range Lite RL262RL, VIN [XXX], built 11/2021. Purchased new from Blue Dog RV, Hayden ID, XXX. Registered owner since XXX. We live in this trailer full time; it is our only housing. Three recalls cover this model year and line: 22V303000 (LP gas quick disconnect, 05/05/2022), 22V573000 (awning, 08/04/2022), 22V775000 (cooktop flame inverts when furnace runs, 10/14/2022). I have never received notification of any of them. 22V303000 issued ten weeks before I bought the unit. Its production range, 07/07/2021 to 04/19/2022, covers my build date; it names Open Range Light travel trailers, estimates 100% defective, and lists dealer and owner notification for 07/01/2022, fifteen days before my purchase. Nothing was disclosed at sale. 22V775000 owner letters were due 11/21/2022, when I was already the registered owner. Failures: thermostat has never worked correctly. A/C failed early, was replaced at my cost for installation, still short cycles. Furnace failed, was replaced under warranty, failed again; we spent an entire [XXX] winter without heat and now use portable propane heaters. Cooktop igniter never worked. Jayco shipped a replacement, we installed it ourselves, still non-functional. No stove or oven for the entire ownership period. I contacted Jayco repeatedly by email and sent a written complaint to Jayco Owner Relations on 04/03/2024 listing eleven defects, copied to DeMars & Associates for DRP-RV mediation. Recalls were never mentioned. Every repair offer required delivering the trailer to a dealer. We live in it and have no alternate housing, so no offered remedy was usable. Trailer and all components are in my possession and available for inspection. Not inspected by manufacturer, police, or insurer. Symptoms began within the first months of ownership. No warning lamps; this trailer has none. 200 MBs of supporting evidence, documents, correspondence, photographs, and records available upon request. INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C
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