Equipment: recreational vehicle/trailer: lpg systems: furnace (ITT)
Vehicle equipment recall 87E-021. NHTSA received ITT GENERAL CONTROLS’s report on May 14, 1987.
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The short answer
NHTSA received ITT GENERAL CONTROLS’s report on May 14, 1987. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 20, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
UPON MAIN IGNITION, THIS CONDITION COULD RESULT IN ANEXPLOSION OR FIRE AND CAUSE SERIOUS PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH TO ANYONE WITHINOR IN THE VICINITY OF THE VEHICLE.
THE DIRECT SPARK IGNITION DEFECT COULD RESULT IN UNBURNED GAS FLOWING INTO THE COMBUSTION CHAMBER OF THE FURNACE.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Equipment: recreational vehicle/trailer: lpg systems: furnace.
What should you do?
INSPECT AND REPLACE DEFECTIVE SPARK MODULE.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: SYSTEM: ELECTRICAL/FURNACE.VEHICLE CATEGORY: RECREATIONAL VEHICLES.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 1,327 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- ITT ITTNHTSA gives no dates made
Who is recalling it?
- Made by ITT GENERAL CONTROLS.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Which ones, by part or lot: the recall’s report on NHTSA’s site gives them where the maker did; this file gives part numbers only where its maker listed them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file before 2010 (FLAT_RCL_PRE_2010).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
Vehicle, car seat, tire and vehicle equipment recalls, owner complaints and crash ratings are from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Copied on Oct 20, 2026.