10-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)

x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012

OR

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from             to

Commission file number 1-9511

THE COAST DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	94-2490990
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
350 Woodview Avenue, Morgan Hill, California	95037
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

(408) 782-6686

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Common Stock, par value, $.001 per share Preferred Share Purchase Rights, $0.001 per share	American Stock Exchange American Stock Exchange
(Title of Class)	(Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.    Yes  ¨    No  x.

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 of 15(d) of the Act.    YES  ¨    NO  x.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports); and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    YES  x    NO  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate website, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of Registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.   x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” and “non-accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer	¨	Accelerated filer	¨
Non-accelerated filer	¨	Smaller reporting company	x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x

The aggregate market value of the outstanding shares of Common Stock held by non-affiliates of registrant as of June 30, 2012, the last day of the second quarter of fiscal 2012, which was determined on the basis of the closing price of registrant’s shares on that date, was approximately $8,025,000.

As of March 11, 2013, a total of 4,923,431 shares of registrant’s Common Stock were outstanding.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Except as otherwise stated therein, Part III of the Form 10-K is incorporated by reference from registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement expected to be filed on or before April 30, 2013 for its Annual Meeting.

THE COAST DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INC.

ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K

FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

		Page No.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS			1
Part I
Item 1	Business		1
Item 1A	Risk Factors		5
Item 1B	Unresolved Staff Comments		11
Item 2	Properties		12
Item 3	Legal Proceedings		12
Item 4	Mine Safety Disclosures		12
	Executive Officers of the Registrant		13
Part II
Item 5	Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities		14
Item 6	Selected Financial Data		16
Item 7	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations		17
	Management Overview		17
	Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates		18
	Results of Operations		21
	Liquidity and Capital Resources		23
	Seasonality and Inflation		26
Item 7A	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk		27
Item 8	Financial Statements and Supplementary Data		28
Item 9	Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosures		48
Item 9A	Controls and Procedures		48
Item 9B	Other Information		49
Part III
Item 10	Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant		50
Item 11	Executive Compensation		50
Item 12	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters		50
Item 13	Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence		50
Item 14	Principal Accountant Fees and Services		50
Part IV
Item 15	Exhibits and Financial Statements and Schedules		51
Signatures			S-1

(i)

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

Statements contained in this Annual Report that are not historical facts or that discuss our expectations, beliefs or views regarding our future operations or future financial performance, or financial or other trends in our business or markets, constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”) and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”). Forward-looking statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. Often, they include words such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “estimate,” “project,” or other words of similar meaning, or future or conditional verbs such as “will,” “would,” “should,” “could,” or “may.” The statements and the expectations, beliefs or views regarding our future financial condition or financial performance or trends in our business or markets that are contained in this Report are based on current information and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause our financial condition or operating results in the future to differ, possibly significantly, from those expected at the current time. Those risks and uncertainties are described in Item 1A of Part I of this Report in the Section entitled “RISK FACTORS” and some of the factors and uncertainties that can affect our business, financial condition and results of operations also are set forth in Part II of this Report in the Section entitled “MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.” Readers of this Report are urged to read the cautionary statements contained in those Sections of this Report.

Due to these risks and uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements contained in this Report, which speak only as of the date of this Annual Report. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may otherwise be required by applicable law or the rules of the American Stock Exchange.

PART I

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

References in this Annual Report to “Coast,” “we,” “us,” or “our” or to the “Company” shall mean The Coast Distribution System, Inc. and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.

Overview of Our Business

The Coast Distribution System, Inc. is one of North America’s largest suppliers of replacement parts, supplies and accessories for recreational vehicles (“RVs”), to RV dealers, supply stores and service centers (“Aftermarket Customers”), which resell the products they purchase from us, at retail, to consumers. We supply or distribute almost 11,000 products and serve more than 10,500 customers throughout the United States and Canada, from 13 regional distribution centers in the United States that are located in California, Texas, Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia, Florida and Wisconsin and 4 regional distribution centers in Canada located, respectively, in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Reference is made to Note G to our Consolidated Financial Statements, contained in Item 8 of this Report, for certain information regarding the Company’s operations in the United States and Canada, respectively.

We differ from traditional wholesale product distributors in our markets, in that approximately 30% of our sales are of “proprietary” products which we have introduced into the marketplace. Our proprietary products have been designed specifically for us, at our request, by independent product design firms or product manufacturers and are manufactured for us, generally on an exclusive basis, by a number of different independent manufacturers, mostly, but not entirely, in Asia. We market our proprietary products under our own brand-names in competition with or, in some cases that complement products from, traditional manufacturers of RV parts, supplies and accessories. For the most part, our proprietary products are comprised of products that are needed or used by RV customers on a regular or recurring basis, such as trailer hitches, plastic wastewater tanks, vent lids, stabilizing jacks and battery boxes. Due to differences in costs, we generally are able to generate higher margins on sales of proprietary products than we are able to realize on sales of competing products. See “Products — Proprietary Products Strategy and Sales” below.

We also have recently begun to market and sell portable generators and certain other products, including some of our proprietary products, to other product distributors, national and regional home improvement and home accessories chains, catalogue stores, hardware stores and agricultural equipment outlets that sell outdoor power equipment to consumers. See “Products — Expansion into New Markets” below.

The Company was incorporated in California in June 1977, and reincorporated in Delaware in April 1998.

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The RV and Boating Parts, Supplies and Accessories Aftermarkets

Many manufacturers of RV replacement parts, supplies and accessories rely on independent distributors, such as the Company, to market and distribute their products or to augment their own product distribution operations. Distributors relieve manufacturers of a portion of the costs associated with distribution of their products while providing geographically dispersed selling, order processing and delivery capabilities. At the same time, distributors offer retailers access to a broad line of products and the convenience of rapid delivery of orders which reduces the amount of product inventories that retailers must carry and, therefore, their costs of operations.

The markets for RV and boating parts, supplies and accessories distributed by the Company are comprised of RV and boating dealers and RV and boating supply stores and service centers (“Aftermarket Customers”). Our RV Aftermarket customers purchase a broad range of RV parts, supplies and accessories from us and our boating Aftermarket Customers primarily purchase replacement parts, boating supplies and smaller accessories from us. See “Products” below.

Products

General. We carry a full line of almost 11,000 RV parts, supplies and accessories which we purchase from more than 400 manufacturers, which include the manufacturers that produce our proprietary products, in most cases on an exclusive basis specifically for us. The RV products that we distribute include antennae, vents, electrical items, towing equipment and hitches, and portable generators and appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators, stoves and ranges and LP gas equipment, and portable toilets and plumbing parts, hardware and tools, specialized recreational vehicle housewares, chemicals and supplies, and various accessories, such as ladders, jacks, fans, load stabilizers, outdoor furniture, mirrors and compressors.

Proprietary Products Strategy and Sales. We have introduced into the RV Aftermarket a growing number of products, which are manufactured specifically for us, often on an exclusive basis, by a number of different independent manufacturers, based primarily, but not exclusively, in Asia. These products (which we refer to as our “proprietary products”) consist of products that are needed or used by RV customers on a regular or recurring basis, such as trailer hitches and other towing equipment, plastic wastewater tanks, vent lids, stabilizing jacks, battery boxes, and LED lighting. Most of these products have been designed for us by independent professional product design firms or by the independent manufacturers that we have retained to manufacture the products for us. We market these proprietary products under our own brand-names in competition with brand name products from traditional suppliers, which usually sell their products to a number of different distributors and sometimes into other markets.

We conduct our own quality control testing of proprietary products that could fail or be damaged due to stress during usage, such as the portable generators and towing hitches and equipment, either at the plants where the products are manufactured for us or at product testing facilities that we operate in Elkhart, Indiana and Wilsonville Oregon.

Generally, the costs to us of purchasing proprietary products are lower than the costs of purchasing competing products from traditional suppliers based in the United States. As a result, our proprietary products strategy has enabled us, over the years, to offer our customers lower-priced products, without compromising quality, and at the same time has enabled us to increase our gross profit margins. However, the costs of testing and marketing our proprietary products reduce some of the margin advantage we gain on sales of those products.

Expansion into New Markets. During the past few years we have begun to source, primarily from overseas manufacturers, and to market and sell in the United States and Canada, products, such as portable generators, that have applications not only in the RV Aftermarket, but also in other markets, such as the outdoor power equipment market. We intend to continue our efforts to source additional products from independent manufacturers, primarily in Asia, that we can sell into multiple markets domestically, in order to increase our sales and gross margins and reduce our dependence on the RV markets. It is too early to predict if this strategy will prove to be successful. Among other things, we have encountered stiff competition in those new markets from manufacturers and distributors of competing products. A number of those manufacturers and distributors are larger and have more marketing and capital resources than we do and are better known in those markets than we are. Additionally, we expect that it will be necessary for us to assume primary responsibility for marketing these foreign sourced products to consumers and, in some instances, for providing warranty service for such products, the costs of which reduce some of the margin advantage we enjoy on sales of these products.

Marketing and Sales

Our Customers. Our customers include primarily (i) RV dealers, which purchase optional equipment and accessories for new recreational vehicles and replacement and repair parts for their service departments, (ii) independent RV supply stores and service centers that purchase parts, supplies and accessories for resale to owners of RVs and for their service centers, and (iii) specialty retailers, which purchase our products to sell either in their stores or online. We are not dependent on any single customer for any material portion of our business and no single customer accounted for more than 2% of our sales in 2012, 2011 or 2010.

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Our Customer Service Center and Electronic Order Entry and Warehousing System. We have designed and implemented a computer-based order entry and warehousing system which enables our customers to transmit orders electronically to our central computers and also enables us, subject to product availability, to prepare and invoice most customer orders within 24 hours of receipt.

We operate a national customer sales and service center through which our customers can obtain product information and place orders by telephone using toll-free telephone numbers. Our customer sales and service center is staffed by sales personnel who are trained to promote the sale of our products and to handle customer service issues. We also maintain web sites where our customers can submit orders electronically.

Orders transmitted by customers either electronically, or via telephone to the national customer sales and service center, are entered into our computer system and then are electronically transmitted to the regional distribution center selected by the customer, where the products are picked, packed and shipped. At the time the order is received, the customer is informed, either by electronic confirmation or by the sales person handling the customer’s call at the customer service center, that the order has been accepted and whether any items are not currently in stock.

Distribution

General. Our regional distribution and warehouse centers in North America carry an inventory of up to approximately 11,000 RV and boating parts, supplies and accessories, although the nature and number of products at each distribution and warehouse center does vary, based primarily on the historical product sales of each distribution center to customers in their respective geographic regions. We rely primarily on independent freight companies to ship our products to our customers.

We have implemented an inventory management and deployment system that we designed to improve our ability to fill customer orders from the distribution centers closest to the customer and, thereby, improve our responsiveness to the customer and at the same time reduce our costs of service. We track product sales from each of our distribution and warehouse centers and stock at each such center only the products which are in relatively high demand from customers in the region serviced by that distribution center. At the same time we offer our customers a program by which we ship products that are not available at the Company’s distribution center closest to the customer from the next closest of the Company’s distribution centers which stock those products. This program reduces back-orders that could adversely affect service levels to our customers and, at the same time, reduces our costs because it eliminates the need to stock duplicative products at all of our warehouses.

Arrangements with Manufacturers

General. The products which we supply or distribute are purchased from more than 400 different manufacturers. As is typical in the industry, in most instances we acquire those products on a purchase order basis and we have no long term supply contracts or guaranteed price or delivery agreements with manufacturers, including the manufacturers that produce proprietary products for us. As a result, short-term inventory shortages can occur. We sometimes choose to carry only a single manufacturer’s products for certain of the brand-name product lines that we sell, although comparable products usually are available from multiple sources. In addition, generally we obtain each of our proprietary products from a single source manufacturer, although in many instances we own the tooling required for their manufacture.

Dependence on a single manufacturer for any product or line of related products, however, presents some risks, including the risk that we will be unable to readily obtain products from alternative suppliers in the event that a single source supplier encounters production problems or decides either to enter into an exclusive supply arrangement or alliance with a competing distributor or to vertically integrate its operations to include the distribution of its products. Termination of a single source supply relationship could adversely affect our sales and operating income, possibly to a significant extent. See “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of Part I of this Report.

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Our increased purchases of foreign sourced products subjects us to foreign currency risks that could reduce the margin advantage we would be able to realize on the sales of those products to our customers in North America. See “RISK FACTORS — Our financial performance can be adversely affected by currency fluctuations associated with our operations in Canada and our increased reliance on foreign product suppliers.

The following table identifies the product manufacturers that accounted for 5% or more of our total product purchases, and the respective percentages of our total product purchases accounted for by each of them, in each of 2012, 2011 and 2010:

	Percent of Company’s Total Product Purchases in the Years Ended December 31
	2012			2011			2010
Airexcel, Inc.		22	%		27	%		20	%
Zhejiang Xingyu Industry & Trade Co., Ltd.		6	%		6	%		*

* Less than 5%.

Airexcel, Inc. has manufactured and supplied us with Coleman^® brand RV air conditioners for more than the past 15 years. Zhejiang Xingyu Industry & Trade Co., Ltd. (“Zhejiang”) manufactures and supplies us with portable generators. We began purchasing generators from Zhejiang in 2010, which we market and sell under our own “Powerhouse” brand name. No other product manufacturers accounted for as much as 5% of our product purchases in 2012, 2011 or 2010.

Product Warranties and Product Liability Insurance. We generally do not independently warrant the products that we distribute and sell. Instead, product manufacturers generally warrant the products they sell to us and allow us to return defective products for credit or replacement, including those that have been returned to us by our customers. However, we do sell portable generators under a product supply arrangement with the manufacturer which provides for us to share the costs of providing warranty services for these products. The warranty period is 24 months following the sale of a generator to a retail customer. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, we had established reserves of $690,000 and $564,000, respectively, for potential warranty claims with respect to those products. However, there is no assurance that warranty claims in the future will not exceed these amounts. See “MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS — Critical Accounting Policies — Warranty Costs” in Item 7 of this report below.

We also maintain insurance to protect us against product liability claims relating to all of the products we distribute and sell. Additionally, we often are able to obtain indemnification agreements from our product suppliers to protect us against product liability claims that may arise out of the use of the products they manufacture and supply to us for resale.

Competition

We face significant competition. There are a number of national and regional distributors of RV parts, supplies and accessories that compete with us. There also are mass merchandisers, web retailers, catalog houses and national and regional retail chains specializing in the sale of RV parts, supplies and accessories that purchase such products directly from manufacturers. The mass merchandisers, web retailers, and national and regional chains compete directly with the RV supply stores and service centers that purchase products from us. This competition affects both the volume of our sales and the prices we are able to charge our customers for those products. Additionally, there is no assurance that changes in supply relationships or new alliances within the RV or boating products industry will not occur that would further increase competition.

We compete on the basis of the quality, speed and reliability of our service, the breadth of our product lines and on price. We believe that we are highly competitive in each of these areas.

As discussed earlier in this Report, we sell portable generators and certain other products, not only in the RV market, but also in other markets, such as the outdoor power equipment market, in which we have not previously sold products. We also intend to seek additional products that we can source from overseas suppliers for resale into other markets in the United States and Canada. We expect to encounter intensive competition from manufacturers and distributors of competing products in those other markets. Many of those companies are larger and have greater marketing and financial resources than we do and are better known than us in these markets. Therefore, there is no assurance that we will be successful in competing against those companies.

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Seasonality

Sales of RV and boating parts, supplies and accessories are seasonal. Generally, we have significantly higher sales during the six-month period from March through August than we do during the remainder of the year when winter weather conditions result in reductions in purchases and in the usage of RVs and boats and, therefore, also in the demand for the products we sell. Because a substantial portion of our expenses are fixed, operating income declines and we sometimes incur losses and must rely more heavily on borrowings to fund our operations in the winter months when sales are lower.

Employees

At December 31, 2012, we had approximately 275 full-time employees, which include 65 employees in Canada. During the peak summer months, we also employ part-time workers at our regional distribution and warehouse centers. None of our employees is represented by a labor union and we believe that relations with our employees are good.

Our Website

Our internet website address is www.coastdistribution.com. Our Annual Report to Stockholders and all of our SEC filings are available on our website, without charge. Copies of these filings also are available as soon as reasonably practicable after we have filed or furnished these documents to the SEC at its website, which is www.sec.gov.

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

Statements contained in this Annual Report that are not historical facts or that discuss our expectations, beliefs or views regarding our future operations or future financial performance or future financial condition or trends in our business or markets constitute “forward-looking statements.” Forward-looking statements contain estimates, predictions and our expectations, beliefs and views about our future financial performance or future financial condition, or regarding financial or market trends that may affect our future operating results. Such statements are based on current information available to us and our business is subject to a number of risks, market conditions and uncertainties that could cause our actual financial performance or financial condition in future periods to differ, possibly significantly, from our current expectations and the estimates that are set forth in the forward looking statements contained in this Annual Report. Set forth below is a discussion of those risks and uncertainties. However, readers of this Report are cautioned that it is not possible to predict all of the events or circumstances that might occur and might adversely affect our financial performance or operating results in the future and, therefore, there may be other risks to which our business is subject that are not addressed below.

Our business and financial performance are affected by economic conditions that affect consumers.

Our sales are affected directly by the level of purchases and the usage by consumers of RVs and boats which, in turn, are dependent on the ability and willingness of consumers to spend money to make purchases of and to use their RVs and boats. As a result, our sales are affected primarily by (i) the discretionary income that consumers have to spend, (ii) their confidence about economic conditions which determines their willingness to spend their discretionary income, (iii) the availability of and the interest rates payable on borrowings, including credit card debt, on which consumers generally rely to finance their purchases of and the costs of using RVs, and (iv) the availability and prices of gasoline, which affect the ability and cost of operating and using their RVs. As a result, our sales and earnings in the past have been, and our future sales and earnings can be, adversely affected by the following conditions:

• Economic downturns and recessions and high rates of unemployment, which result in declines in discretionary income of and a loss of confidence among consumers about economic conditions and their own economic well-being and security, which cause them to reduce their purchases and usage of RVs and boats;

• A tightening in the availability and increases in the costs of borrowings and consumer credit on which consumers rely to supplement their own funds when purchasing new and used RVs or boats and paying to maintain and purchase supplies and accessories for their RVs and boats; and

• Increases in the prices and shortages in the supply of gasoline, which increase the costs and sometimes even the ability and, therefore, the willingness of consumers to purchase and use RVs and boats.

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Our results of operations in 2012, 2011 and 2010 illustrate the impact that adverse economic and market conditions can have on our business and financial performance. The recent economic recession, which is reported to have begun in late 2007 and to have continued through most of 2010, and the sluggishness of the economic recovery have had wide-ranging consequences for the economy as a whole and for the RV industry in particular. These conditions have resulted in a considerable decline in economic activity throughout the country, high rates of unemployment and a significant decline in consumer confidence. As a result, consumers have significantly curtailed their discretionary expenditures, resulting in significant reductions in their purchases and usage of RVs, which, in turn, led consumers to reduce their purchases of the products we sell.

For a more detailed discussion of how these economic conditions affected our results of operation and financial condition in 2012, see “MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS” below, in Item 7 of this report.

The economic recession and credit crisis could have longer term adverse consequences for our business and future financial performance.

The recent economic recession and credit crisis led to closures and bankruptcies of many RV dealers, as well as a number of well-known RV manufacturers, which has resulted in reductions in the number of RV dealers and supply stores and in the overall size of the RV market. As a result, we have encountered increased price competition in our markets, which contributed to a decline in our gross profit margins in 2012 and 2011. In addition, in response to the economic recession and continuing economic uncertainties, consumers have reduced their discretionary spending and their heavy reliance on consumer credit, which has resulted in reductions in purchases and the usage of RVs. Also, owners of RVs have been increasing their purchases of RV parts, supplies and accessories from lower-cost sellers, such as mass merchandisers and web-based retailers, resulting in reductions in sales by independent dealers, supply stores and service centers that comprise our Aftermarket Customers, causing them to reduce their purchases of the products we sell. We do not know and cannot predict whether or the extent to which consumers will increase their discretionary spending after economic conditions improve and, therefore, whether or not sales and usage of RVs and boats will recover to their pre-recession levels. If they do not, our market share, sales revenue and product pricing and, therefore, our future financial performance could be adversely affected.

In the future, we may have to restructure our business in response to a deterioration in economic conditions, a decline in the RV industry or to changing technology, products and markets. If we are not able to continue to improve our business processes or our financial and our information technology systems, or if we are not able to restructure our business in response to the deteriorating economic conditions, we may not be able to achieve our financial objectives.

Volatility of gasoline prices could affect our sales and future financial performance.

Increases in the costs of and shortages in supplies of gasoline can lead consumers to reduce their usage of, and may discourage some consumers from purchasing, RVs which, in turn, would result in decreases in their purchases of the products we sell. In particular, during the last few years there has been increased volatility in the prices of gasoline due to concerns about the supplies available to or within the United States, due to (i) the growth in demand and competition for oil and gasoline from emerging and high growth economies, such as China and India, (ii) conflicts and political unrest in the middle east, and (iii) natural and human-made disasters, such as the gulf oil spill. It is also difficult to predict whether uncertainties regarding and increases in gasoline prices will have short or longer term effects on the use and purchases by consumers of RVs. As a result these conditions and uncertainties also may increase cyclical swings in and make it more difficult to predict our future operating results.

Continued uncertainties about the economic recovery in the United States and the sovereign debt crisis and recession in Western Europe could adversely affect our future operating results.

For a number of reasons, including the stalemate in the Congress over government spending, concerns and uncertainties remain regarding the pace and strength of the economic recovery in the United States. In addition, Western Europe has fallen back into recession and uncertainties remain with respect to the ability of certain European Union countries to continue to service their sovereign debt obligations. These uncertainties have not only adversely impacted the financial markets, but also have had a negative impact on global economic activity. Moreover, unless satisfactorily resolved, these uncertainties and the underlying economic difficulties could lead to a global economic recession, which could stall the economic recovery or even cause another economic recession in the United States that would lead to increases in unemployment, decreases in disposal income and declines in consumer confidence. Such an event could cause consumers to further reduce their purchases and usage of RVs and boats and, therefore, their need for and their purchases of the products sell, thereby adversely affecting our future operating results.

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Our business is seasonal and our financial performance can be adversely affected by unusual weather conditions.

Our business is seasonal, because consumers generally increase their purchases and usage of RVs and boats and, therefore, increase their purchases of the products we sell, primarily in the spring and summer months, which coincide with our second and third fiscal quarters; whereas, such purchases and usage decline in the late fall and in the winter months, which coincide with the fourth and first quarters of our fiscal year. As a result, as a general rule our sales are higher and our financial performance is better in our second and third fiscal quarters than in our fourth and first fiscal quarters, during which we often incur losses.

However, the occurrence of unusually severe or extended winter weather conditions can adversely affect our operating results in our second and third fiscal quarters, and can lead to more severe swings in our sales and financial performance, because such conditions can have the effect of reducing the usage of RV for periods extending beyond the ordinary winter months or to regions that ordinarily encounter milder winter weather conditions. Additionally, extended periods of unusually severe weather conditions sometimes also occur during the winter months, which can cause year-over-year declines in our sales in the first or fourth quarters of the year.

We rely heavily on bank borrowings to fund our business, which makes us more vulnerable to adverse changes in economic conditions and creates liquidity risks for us.

We rely heavily on bank borrowings, under a revolving credit line, to fund our working capital requirements and capital expenditures. Our outstanding borrowings create additional risks for our business. Among other things, we may find it more difficult to obtain additional financing to fund expansion or take advantage of other business opportunities, and we use a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to pay principal and interest on our debt. Our existing debt also makes us more vulnerable to general economic downturns and competitive pressures, which could cause us to fail to meet financial covenants in our bank loan agreement or lead the bank to impose restrictions on the borrowings that will be made available to us. More recently, our reliance on bank borrowings has increased because we had negative cash flows from operations of $2.1 million in 2012. Although the maturity date of our line of credit is July 10, 2014, we could be required to repay the borrowings under that line of credit sooner if we fail to meet a financial covenant under the line of credit agreement. There is no assurance, however, that we will be able to do so, as this will depend on a number of factors, including our future results of operations and cash flows and market and economic conditions over which we do not have control. If we are required to repay those borrowing sooner than the 2014 maturity date, it would be necessary for us to obtain a new credit line from another bank or lender. There is no assurance that, if necessary, we would succeed in doing so. In that event, we would have to significantly curtail our operations and reduce our inventories and our results of operations and financial condition would be materially and adversely affected.

Our ability to manage our inventory in a volatile market could adversely affect our profitability.

Our operating results also depend upon our ability to successfully manage our inventory and to anticipate and respond to purchasing trends and customer demands in a timely manner. The use, and therefore the purchases, by consumers of the products we sell can be volatile and uncertain because they can be affected by a number of factors, including general economic and market conditions, gasoline prices, weather conditions and competition and consumer preferences, none of which are within our control. We usually must order inventory in advance of each year’s selling season. Moreover, the lead times for many of our purchases (particularly of foreign sourced products) may make it difficult for us to respond rapidly to new or changing product trends, increases or decreases in customer demand or changes in prices. If we misjudge the demand for our products or our customers’ purchasing habits, (i) we may have insufficient quantities of products to satisfy customer demand, resulting in a decline in our revenues, or (ii) we may accumulate and have to write down excess inventory, which would increase our costs of sales. Also, the level of product inventory we maintain will affect our need for borrowings and, as a result, we may have to curtail our purchases of inventories, which could adversely affected our sales, in order keep our borrowings at an acceptable level.

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Our financial performance is subject to risks arising out of our proprietary products strategy.

In order to increase our sales and reduce our costs of sales and, thereby increase our profitability, we have introduced into the RV market a growing number of products that have been designed by or for us and which are manufactured and sold to us, generally on an exclusive basis, by a number of different manufacturers. More recently, we have begun sourcing and purchasing, from overseas suppliers, and marketing and selling a number of new products, such as portable generators, into new markets such as the outdoor power equipment market. We have only limited experience in marketing and selling such products, and there is no assurance that these products will gain acceptance among customers in those markets. We also encounter considerable competition from companies that manufacture or sell competing products in those same markets. Many of those companies are larger, more established and better known and have greater financial and marketing resources than we have. Also, we have greater responsibilities for quality control and in marketing and providing warranty protection and service for these products, as compared to the products we source from traditional suppliers for resale in the RV or boating markets. There is no assurance that we will be successful in marketing and selling these products, and the costs we incur in doing so may reduce our earnings or possibly even cause us to incur losses and we could encounter liabilities for possible warranty claims related to the proprietary products we sell.

Moreover, we may experience unexpected engineering or design flaws in connection with new proprietary products that we may introduce into the market, which could lead to a recall of the products, in which event we could incur substantial expenses that could adversely affect our results of operations.

Risks of our reliance on sole sources of supply for certain of our products.

We sometimes choose to carry only a single manufacturer’s products for certain of the brand-name product lines that we sell. In addition, we obtain each of our proprietary products from a single source manufacturer, although in many instances we own the tooling required for their manufacture. Dependence on a single manufacturer for any product or line of related products, however, presents some risks, including the risk that we will be unable to readily obtain alternative product supply sources in the event that a single source supplier (i) encounters quality or other manufacturing problems, or (ii) decides to enter into an exclusive supply arrangement or alliance with one of our competitors, or to vertically integrate its operations to include not only manufacturing, but also distribution, of its products. If any of our single source suppliers were to encounter any manufacturing problems or disruptions or terminate our supply relationship, our sales and earnings could decline, possibly to a significant extent.

Our financial results can be and sometimes have been adversely affected by changes in supply relationships in our markets.

As is the customary practice in our markets, in most instances we do not have long term supply contracts with our product suppliers. As a result, product suppliers are free to change the terms on which they sell us products or to discontinue supplying us with products altogether, because they may choose to distribute their products directly to aftermarket dealers or retailers or because they might choose to establish exclusive supply relationships with other distributors. Additionally, manufacturers of new RVs may choose to incorporate optional equipment on their RVs at the time of manufacture that, historically, were sold to their dealers by distributors such as the Company. Any of these occurrences could result in increased competition in our markets or could reduce the number of products we are able to offer our customers, which could cause our sales to decline and could result in lower margins and in reduced earnings.

Our financial performance and cash flows can be adversely affected by currency fluctuations associated with our operations in Canada and our increased reliance on foreign product suppliers.

Currency Risks Associated with our Canadian Operations. Our wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary accounts for approximately 25% of our annual net sales. That subsidiary purchases a substantial portion of the products it sells from manufacturers in the United States and pays for those products in U.S. dollars, but sells those products to its customers in Canadian dollars. In the event the Canadian dollar weakens in relation to the U.S. dollar, the costs of those products to our Canadian subsidiary would increase, thereby reducing its gross margin, unless it is able to pass the higher costs on to its customers by raising its prices without adversely affecting its sales volume. If our Canadian subsidiary is unable to pass the higher costs on to its customers, our gross profits, operating income and cash flows would decline during any periods when there are declines in the value of the Canadian dollar in relation to the U.S. dollar.

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Currency and other Risks Associated with our Purchases of Foreign Sourced Products. As we increase our purchases of products from foreign suppliers, we may become increasingly vulnerable to the effects of political instability and adverse economic conditions in the countries in which those suppliers are located. Additionally, purchases of products in foreign countries create currency risks for us. In those instances when we pay for foreign sourced products in U.S. dollars, a weakening U.S. dollar may lead foreign suppliers to increase the prices they charge us for their products in order to mitigate their currency exchange risks. In those countries where we buy products in the local currency, to the extent it becomes necessary for us to convert U.S. dollars into the local currency in order to pay for those products, a weakening U.S. dollar would make the local currency more expensive for us, thereby increasing the costs to us of purchasing those products. Moreover, a devaluation of local currencies may lead foreign suppliers to increase the prices they charge us for their products. Any of these events or circumstances could reduce the margin advantage that we could otherwise realize on our sales of foreign sourced products in North America, unless we are able to pass along the higher costs to our customers without adversely affecting our sales volume. If we are unable to pass such higher costs on to our customers, our gross profits and operating income and our cash flows would decline.

When appropriate, we may attempt to limit our exposure to exchange rate fluctuations by entering into currency exchange contracts. There is no assurance that we will be successful in hedging such foreign currency exchange risk and any currency exchange gains or losses (net of hedges) may materially and adversely impact our cash flows and earnings.

We are subject to product liability risks and warranty claims.

Product Liability Risks. Although we do not manufacture any of the products we sell, it is not uncommon for us to be named as an additional defendant in product liability lawsuits brought against the manufacturers of the products we sell. To protect ourselves from liability, we have been able in many instances to obtain indemnification agreements from these manufacturers or to be named as additional insureds under their product liability insurance policies. Nevertheless, we also maintain our own product liability insurance. We also conduct quality control testing, at our own product testing laboratories in the United States, of many of the proprietary products that we sell. However, although we have never incurred any material product liabilities in excess of the insurance coverages that we have obtained under policies of insurance maintained either by product manufacturers or by us, there is no assurance that we will not incur, in the future, product liabilities in amounts that materially exceed the insurance coverage and indemnification protections that we have and which, as a result, could adversely affect our results of operations or financial condition. Moreover, the risks of incurring liabilities for product defects has increased as a result of our proprietary products strategy, because many of the suppliers of those products are located overseas, making us a more attractive target for product liability claims.

Warranty Claims Risks. In certain instances, we have assumed the responsibility for dealing with and resolving product warranty claims from customers. As a result, we have had to establish reserves for potential product warranty claims which has increased our costs of sales. In addition, the amount of those reserves are determined based not only on historical warranty claims experience, but also on estimates of the number and costs to us of future warranty claims. If the actual number or the costs of warranty claims were to exceed our estimates, it could become necessary for us to increase those reserves, which would result in an increase in our costs of sales that could adversely affect our profit margins and our results of operations. See “MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS — Critical Accounting Policies — Warranty Costs” below in this Annual Report.

Risks of patent infringement claims.

We design, or have independent product design firms or manufacturers, design and engineer a number of the proprietary products that we introduce into the marketplace. From time to time manufacturers of competing products have threatened and on occasion have brought suits against us claiming that some of our proprietary or foreign sourced products infringe their patents. We retain a patent law firm to review all new products that we plan to introduce into the market for potential patent infringements and that firm works in concert with our product design engineers and independent design firms or manufacturers to determine if design or other changes need to be made to a product to prevent infringing on patents or other proprietary rights held by competitors. To date we have not incurred any material liability as a result of any patent infringement claims that have been threatened or asserted against us. However, there can be no assurance that we will not incur liability for patent infringement in the future. Additionally, the filing of a patent infringement suit may require us to halt sales or to redesign newly introduced products to avoid patent infringement liability, which could reduce our sales and increase our costs and, thereby, adversely affect our results of operations.

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We face substantial competition that could lead to declines in net sales or reductions in our gross profits.

We face significant competition in each of our markets which can adversely affect our sales, profit margins and operating results. In our RV products market we face competition not only from other wholesale distributors, but also from mass merchandisers, web retailers, catalog houses and national and regional retail chains that sell RV parts, supplies and accessories. Moreover, due to their size and financial resources, some of those mass merchandisers and national or regional chains are able to purchase such products directly from manufacturers at prices comparable to the prices at which we are able to purchase such products from those same or competing manufacturers. The mass merchandisers, web retailers, and national and regional chains compete directly with the RV and boating dealers, supply stores and service centers that purchase products from us and, therefore, their pricing decisions and the breadth of the products they sell can affect both the volume of our sales and the prices we are able to charge our customers for the same or competing products. Additionally, price competition, particularly from such mass merchandisers and national chains, has been increasing as they seek to maintain and increase their market shares. As a result, in order to remain competitive it could become necessary for us to reduce our prices, including the prices at which we sell our proprietary and Coast branded products, in which event we could lose the price and margin advantages that we have gained from the sale of those products. If we match our competitors’ price reductions, our gross profits and gross margin could be adversely affected. Additionally, we face stiff competition in the sale of portable power generators and other products in the outdoor power equipment market from manufacturers and suppliers of competing products, some of which are larger, have greater marketing and capital resources and are better-known in that market, which could force us to reduce our prices for or prevent us from increasing our sales of those products and could cause us to incur losses as a result of our efforts to sell products in markets other than the RV market.

Risk that our deferred tax asset may not be fully realized.

We have recorded, on our balance sheet, a “deferred tax asset” which consists of tax credit and tax loss carryforwards and tax deductions (“tax benefits”) that are available to reduce income taxes that we would otherwise have to pay on the taxable income that we generate in future periods. Under applicable federal and state income tax laws and regulations, such tax benefits will expire at various dates in the future if not used to offset income taxes by such dates. Accordingly, our ability to fully use this deferred tax asset to reduce our taxes in the future depends on the amount of taxable income that we are able to generate prior to such expiration dates. If we determine that it is no longer more likely, than not, that we will be able to fully utilize the deferred tax asset, we would be required to establish (or increase any existing) valuation allowance to reduce the recorded amount of the deferred tax asset on our balance sheet to the amount of the tax benefits we believe we will be able to use prior to their expiration dates. Such an allowance is established or increased by a non-cash operating charge that would increase the provision for income taxes or reduce any income tax benefit in the fiscal period in which that valuation allowance is established or increased. At December 31, 2012, we had a valuation allowance in the amount of nearly $1.4 million which has reduced the carrying value of our net deferred tax asset to $3.1 million. There is no assurance, however, that we will be able to fully utilize this deferred tax asset as that will depend on our future operating results.

Moreover, if we are not able to generate taxable income in the future that will enable us to fully utilize this deferred tax asset, it could become necessary for us to increase the valuation allowance in future periods, which would have the effect of increasing our income tax provision or reducing any income tax benefit that we would record in our statements of operations, thereby adversely affecting our results of operations. See “MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS — Critical Accounting Policies” below in this Annual Report.

Loss of key management.

Our future performance is substantially dependent upon the continued services of certain members of our senior management. The loss of the services of any key members of senior management could have a material adverse effect upon us. In addition, our continued growth depends on our ability to attract and retain skilled executives. There can be no assurance that we will be able to retain our existing key personnel or attract additional qualified executives in the future.

Risk of fluctuations in our share price.

The market price of our common stock may be subject to significant fluctuations in response to our operating results, our ability to meet market expectations and other factors. Fluctuations in the market price of our common stock may also be the result of changes in the trading characteristics that prevail in the market for our common stock, including low trading volumes, trading volume fluctuations and other similar factors. These market fluctuations, as well as general economic conditions, may adversely affect the market price and the liquidity of our common stock. As a result, we cannot assure that the market prices of our common stock will not fluctuate or decline significantly in the future or that there will be sufficient liquidity in the market for our shares that would enable shareholders to sell shares at the times or in the quantities they desire.

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Reliance on our information technology systems exposes us to potential risks.

Reliance on our information technology systems exposes us to potential risks such as interruptions due to natural disasters, such as earthquakes or fire, cyber-attacks, unplanned data center and system outages, fraud perpetrated by malicious individuals and other causes. Our information technology systems are hosted in two locations: our headquarters in Morgan Hill, California and at a co-location managed by a third-party provider.

Failure of our internal control over financial reporting could harm our business and financial results.

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting for external purposes in accordance with principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting is not intended to provide absolute assurance that we would prevent or detect a misstatement of our financial statements or fraud. Any failure to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting could limit our ability to report our financial results accurately and timely or to detect and prevent fraud. The identification of a material weakness could indicate a lack of controls adequate to general accurate financial statements that, in turn, could cause a loss of investor confidence and decline in the market price of our common stock.

Other risks and uncertainties.

Our business and financial performance could be materially and adversely affected in the future by other risks or developments that either are not known to us at the present time or are currently immaterial to our business and results of operations. Such risks could include, but are not limited to, the commencement of litigation against us and unexpected adverse changes in local, national or global economic or market conditions.

Due to these and other possible uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements contained in this Report, which speak only as of the date of this Annual Report. We also disclaim any obligation to update forward-looking information contained in this Report, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may otherwise be required by applicable law or the rules of the American Stock Exchange.

ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

None

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

We operate 13 regional warehouse and distribution centers in 12 states in the United States and 4 regional warehouse and distribution centers, each located in a different Province, in Canada. All of these facilities are leased under triple net leases which require us to pay, in addition to rent, real property taxes, insurance and maintenance costs. The following table sets forth certain information regarding those facilities.

Locations	Square Footage		Lease Expiration Dates
United States:
Wilsonville, Oregon		46,700	December 31, 2016
Visalia, California		230,300	December 31, 2016
Fort Worth, Texas		42,500	October 31, 2016
San Antonio, Texas		27,300	October 31, 2013
Denver, Colorado		50,000	January 31, 2016
Elkhart, Indiana		109,700	January 31, 2017
Lancaster, Pennsylvania		35,500	December 31, 2016
Atlanta, Georgia		65,800	August 31, 2014
Tampa, Florida		38,000	June 30, 2013
Mesa, Arizona		20,700	October 31, 2017
Salt Lake City, Utah		30,400	October 31, 2013
Johnstown, New York		26,800	December 31, 2017
Eau Claire, Wisconsin		17,300	January 31, 2015
Canada:
St. Bruno, Quebec		59,600	December 31, 2021
Orillia, Ontario		36,500	November 30, 2016
Calgary, Alberta		41,200	January 31, 2016
Langley, British Columbia		22,800	December 31, 2016

As indicated in the above table, two of the warehouse and distribution center leases are scheduled to expire within the next 12 to 18 months. While we currently expect to renew those leases, we could decide, instead, either to relocate or close one or both of these distribution centers.

We also lease 18,100 square feet of space in Elkhart, Indiana where we maintain a product testing facility.

Our executive offices are located in Morgan Hill, California, a suburb of San Jose, where we lease 13,700 square feet of office space. Our address at that location is 350 Woodview Avenue, Morgan Hill, California 95037, where our telephone number is (408) 782-6686.

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

From time to time we are named as a defendant, sometimes along with product manufacturers and others, in product liability and personal injury litigation. We believe that this type of litigation is incidental to our operations, and we have our own product liability insurance policies and, in many instances, we have indemnities from the manufacturers from which we obtain our products, to protect us from liabilities that could arise from such claims. On two occasions, we were named as a defendant in patent infringement litigation brought against manufacturers of certain of our proprietary products. To date we have not incurred any material liabilities in any product liability, personal injury or patent litigation and there is no legal action presently pending against us that we believe is likely to have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations. However, there is no assurance that we will not incur product liabilities that exceed our product liability coverage or claims of patent infringement in the future that could adversely affect our operating results. See “RISK FACTORS — We are subject to product liability risks and warranty claims” above.

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not Applicable.

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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF REGISTRANT

Name	Age		Positions with Company
James Musbach		62	President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director
Thomas R. McGuire		69	Chairman of the Board of Directors
Sandra A. Knell		55	Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
David A. Berger		58	Executive Vice President — Operations
Dennis A. Castagnola		65	Executive Vice President — Proprietary Products

Set forth below is certain information regarding the Company’s executive officers.

JAMES MUSBACH. Mr. Musbach, who had served as President of Coast from 1994 to 1995, rejoined the Company in September 2006 as its President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Musbach was promoted to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective April 2008. Between 1995 and his return to Coast, Mr. Musbach held various management positions with Raytek Corporation, a manufacturer of infrared non-contact temperature measurement tools, sensors and systems, most recently serving as an Executive Vice President of Raytek and the General Manager of Raytek’s Portable Products Division.

THOMAS R. MCGUIRE. Mr. McGuire is a founder of the Company and has been its Chairman of the Board since the Company’s inception in 1977. Mr. McGuire also served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from 1997 until April 2008, when he relinquished that position upon Mr. Musbach’s promotion to Chief Executive Officer. Mr. McGuire continues as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

SANDRA A. KNELL. Mrs. Knell has been the Company’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary since August 1985. From 1984 until she joined the Company, Mrs. Knell was an Audit Manager, and for the prior four years was a senior and staff accountant, with Grant Thornton LLP. Mrs. Knell is a Certified Public Accountant.

DAVID A. BERGER. Mr. Berger has served as an Executive Vice President of the Company since May 1988. From August 1986 to May 1988, Mr. Berger was Senior Vice President — Purchasing of the Company. For the prior 14 years he held various management positions with C/P Products Corp., a distributor of recreational vehicle parts and accessories that we acquired in 1985.

DENNIS A. CASTAGNOLA. Mr. Castagnola was appointed to his current position of Executive Vice President — Proprietary Products in August 2007. From November 2000 to August 2007, he served as Executive Vice President — Sales and, for the prior 25 years, he held various management positions with the Company, including Vice President/Division Manager of the Company’s Portland, Oregon distribution center.

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PART II

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCK HOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Our shares of common stock are listed and trade on the American Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “CRV.”

The following table sets forth, for the calendar quarters indicated, the range of the high and low per share sales prices of our common stock as reported by the American Stock Exchange.

	Sales Prices Per Share
	High		Low
2012:
First Quarter	$	2.61	$	2.11
Second Quarter		2.40		2.02
Third Quarter		2.20		1.80
Fourth Quarter		2.10		1.65
2011
First Quarter	$	4.70	$	3.74
Second Quarter		4.40		2.85
Third Quarter		3.10		2.51
Fourth Quarter		2.78		2.00

On March 8, 2013 the closing per share price of our common stock on the American Stock Exchange was $2.70 and there were approximately 700 holders of record of the Company’s shares.

Dividend Policy

In 2005, our Board of Directors adopted a cash dividend policy that provided for the payment of quarterly cash dividends. In November 2008, the Board decided to suspend the payment of cash dividends in order to preserve cash for the Company’s operations in response to the economic recession and the credit crisis. In addition, our bank line of credit agreement contains restrictions on the payment by us of cash dividends. As a result, we do not expect to pay cash dividends at least for the foreseeable future.

No cash dividends were paid in 2012, 2011 or 2010.

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Stock Price Performance Graph

The graph that follows presents a five-year comparison of cumulative total returns for (i) Coast, (ii) the NYSE American Stock Exchange (the “NYSE MKT”) composite index and (iii) an index comprised of companies within the recreational products markets that were selected by us (the “Peer Group”). The Peer Group consists of Brunswick Corporation, Thor Industries, and Winnebago Industries, Inc., which, during the past five years, were manufacturers of recreational vehicles or boats, TriMas Corporation, which manufactures RV and trailer products, and West Marine Inc. which sells boating parts, supplies and accessories both at wholesale and at retail. The data for the graph was obtained from Research Data Group, Inc.

The following stock performance graph assumes that $100 was invested, at the end of fiscal 2007, in Coast’s shares and in the shares of the companies comprising the NYSE MKT Composite index and the Peer Group Index, respectively, and that any dividends issued for the indicated periods were reinvested. Stockholder returns shown in the performance graph are not necessarily indicative of future stock performance.

	At December 31,
	2007		2008		2009		2010		2011		2012
The Coast Distribution System	$	100.00	$	18.07	$	68.59	$	67.88	$	39.47	$	35.08
NYSE MKT Composite		100.00		62.15		82.82		104.10		112.59		121.01
PEER GROUP INDEX		100.00		31.34		81.28		110.51		95.30		146.73

Equity Compensation Plans

Certain information, as of December 31, 2012, with respect to our equity compensation plans is set forth in Item 12, in Part III, of this Report and is incorporated herein by this reference.

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

The selected operating data set forth below for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2012, 2011, and 2010, and the selected balance sheet data at December 31, 2011 and 2010, are derived from the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Report and should be read in conjunction with those financial statements and “MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS” set forth in Item 7 of this Report. The selected operating data for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the selected balance sheet data at December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, are derived from the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements which are not included in this Report.

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010			2009			2008
	(In thousands, except per share data)
Operating Data:
Net sales	$	113,521		$	108,195		$	108,600		$	103,201		$	132,237
Cost of sales (including distribution costs)(1)		96,219			90,166			88,985			83,754			107,625
Gross profit		17,302			18,029			19,615			19,447			24,612
Selling, general and administrative expenses		19,435			18,573			18,330			18,552			26,559
Operating income (loss)		(2,133	)		(544	)		1,285			895			(1,947	)
Equity in net earnings of unconsolidated affiliates		160			35			57			201			147
Other expense
Interest expense		(552	)		(540	)		(579	)		(624	)		(1,409	)
Other		(70	)		(92	)		(194	)		(268	)		(8	)
		(622	)		(632	)		(773	)		(892	)		(1,417	)
Earnings (loss) before income taxes		(2,595	)		(1,141	)		569			204			(3,217	)
Income tax provision (benefit)		(581	)		(255	)		417			105			(1,378	)
Net earnings (loss)	$	(2,014	)	$	(886	)	$	152		$	99		$	(1,839	)
Net earnings (loss) per diluted share(2)	$	(0.44	)	$	(0.20	)	$	0.03		$	0.02		$	(0.41	)
Shares used in computation of net earnings (loss) per share		4,597			4,535			4,574			4,494			4,446

	At December 31,
	2012		2011		2010		2009		2008
	(In thousands, except per share data)
Balance Sheet Data:
Working Capital	$	35,718	$	37,044	$	36,757	$	34,524	$	40,394
Total assets		49,659		47,736		47,782		45,472		52,459
Long-term obligations(3)		10,933		10,895		10,113		9,637		17,078
Stockholders’ equity		29,073		30,224		31,038		29,632		28,220
Book value per share(4)	$	6.32	$	6.66	$	6.79	$	6.59	$	6.35
Dividends per share	$	0.00	$	0.00	$	0.00	$	0.00	$	0.13

(1) Distribution costs consist primarily of warehouse rent, labor and supply costs and product shipping costs.

(2) See Note I to the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of this report.

(3) Exclusive of the current portion of long term obligations. For additional information regarding our long-term obligations, see Note C to the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of this report.

(4) Based on the weighted average number of shares used in the computation of net earnings (loss) per share. See Note I to the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of this report.

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Management Overview

We believe that Coast is one of the largest wholesale suppliers of replacement parts, supplies and accessories for recreational vehicles (“RVs”) in North America. We supply more than 11,000 products and serve more than 10,500 customers throughout the United States and Canada, from 13 regional distribution centers in the United States and 4 regional distribution centers in Canada. Our sales are made primarily to retail parts and supplies stores, service and repair establishments and new and used RV and boat dealers (collectively, “Aftermarket Customers”).

Factors Generally Affecting Sales of RV and Boating Products

Our sales are affected primarily by:

• The usage of RVs by the consumers to whom our Aftermarket Customers sell our products, because such usage affects the consumers’ needs for and their purchases of replacement parts, repair services and supplies; and

• Purchases of new and used RVs by consumers, because they often “accessorize” their RVs at or shortly after the time of purchase.

The usage and the purchase, by consumers, of RVs depend, in large measure, upon the extent of discretionary income available to consumers, their confidence about economic conditions and the availability and the costs to them of credit. As a result, recessionary conditions and a tightening in the availability or increases in the costs of borrowings to consumers often lead to declines in the purchase and, to a lesser extent, in the usage, of RVs and boats. Additionally, increases in the prices and shortages in the supply of gasoline can lead to declines in the usage and purchases of RVs and boats. Finally, the usage by consumers of RVs and, therefore their need for and purchases of the products we sell are affected by weather conditions.

Overview of Fiscal 2012 Operating Results

The following table provides information comparing our fiscal 2012 results of operations to our fiscal 2011 and fiscal 2010 results of operations. Dollars are in thousands, except per share data.

	Year Ended December 31,
							Increase (Decrease) 2012 vs. 2011								Increase (Decrease) 2011 vs. 2010
	2012 Amount			2011 Amount			Amount			Percent			2010 Amount		Amount			Percent
Net sales	$	113,521		$	108,195		$	5,326			4.9	%	$	108,600	$	(405	)		(0.4	)%
Cost of sales(1)		96,219			90,166			6,053			6.7	%		88,985		1,181			1.3	%
Gross profit		17,302			18,029			(727	)		(4.0	)%		19,615		(1,586	)		(8.1	)%
SG&A expenses		19,435			18,573			862			4.6	%		18,330		243			1.3	%
Operating income (loss)		(2,133	)		(544	)		(1,589	)		(292.1	)%		1,285		(1,829	)		(142.3	)%
Interest expense		552			540			12			2.2	%		579		(39	)		(6.7	)%
Earnings (loss) before income taxes		(2,595	)		(1,141	)		(1,454	)		(127.4	)%		569		(1,710	)		(300.5	)%
Income tax provision (benefit)		(581	)		(255	)		(326	)		(127.8	)%		417		(672	)		(161.2	)%
Net earnings (loss)		(2,014	)		(886	)		(1,128	)		(127.3	)%		152		(1,038	)		(682.9	)%
Net earnings (loss) per share-diluted		(0.44	)		(0.20	)		(0.24	)		(120.0	)%		0.03		(0.23	)		(766.7	)%

(1) Inclusive of distribution costs.

Even though sales increased by $5.3 million, or 4.9% in 2012, as compared to 2011, as the above table indicates, in 2012 we incurred a loss from operations of $2.1 million and a net loss of $2.0 million, or $0.44 per diluted share, as compared to an operating loss of $0.5 million and net loss of $0.9 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, in 2011. The increases in the loss from operations and in the net loss in 2012, as compared to 2011, were primarily attributable to (i) a nearly $ 0.7 million, or 4.0%, decrease in gross profit and (ii) a $0.9 million or 4.6%, increase in selling, general and administrative (“SG&A”) expenses.

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The decrease in gross profit in 2012 was due to a number of factors, primarily consisting of (i) price reductions on selected products in response to increased price competition in our market, (ii) a weakening of the Canadian dollar, as compared to the U.S. dollar, in the first half of 2012, which increased the costs to our Canadian subsidiary of purchasing products from suppliers in the United States, (iii) increases in shipping costs, (iv) an increase in the costs of quality control testing of new models of portable generators and new trailer hitches and towing equipment that we introduced into the market in 2012, and (v) an increase in warranty expense in order to increase our reserves for warranty claims primarily as a result of increased sales of portable generators in 2012 as compared to 2011.

The increase in our SG&A expenses was primarily attributable to increased marketing programs, including for our proprietary products, such as generators, as well as traditional RV products, and the addition of field salespeople, in order to increase sales and gain market share.

Outlook for 2013

Although the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association (“RVIA”) is forecasting a 6% increase in sales of travel trailers, fifth wheels and motor home shipments in 2013, as compared to 2012, we are continuing to see fluctuations in consumer demand for RV products, which we attribute to continued high unemployment and continuing uncertainties about the strength and duration of the economic recovery, and recent increases in the prices of gasoline. As a result, we expect that conditions in the RV market will remain unstable and difficult until there is a more sustained economic recovery that leads to steady decreases in rates of unemployment and increases in the availability of credit to small businesses and consumers, and a stabilizing of gasoline prices.

Our strategic goals for 2013 are to achieve a return to profitability by (i) capturing additional market share in the RV marketplace, (ii) selling more of our proprietary products to specialty retailers and mass merchandisers, and (iii) improving our gross margin, primarily by increasing our sales of higher-margin proprietary products. However, we are not able to predict whether we will succeed in achieving our goals for 2013, as this will depend in large measure on whether or not there is a meaningful improvement in economic conditions generally and in the RV market in particular during 2013.

Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates

General

In accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), we record most of our assets at the lower of cost or fair value. In the case of some of our assets, principally accounts receivable, inventories and deferred income taxes, we make adjustments to their cost or fair values to arrive at what we expect to be able to collect on outstanding accounts receivables, the amounts for which we expect to be able to sell our inventories and the amount of our deferred tax asset (which consists of available tax loss and credit carryforwards and tax deductions) that we will be able to use to reduce our taxes in the future. Those adjustments are made on the basis of a number of different factors, including the assumptions and judgments we make regarding economic and market conditions and trends and their impact on our financial performance. However, those assumptions and judgments are necessarily based on current information available to us. If those conditions or trends were to change in ways that we did not expect, then based on our assessment of how those changes will affect the prospects for realizing the values at which we had recorded these assets, pursuant to GAAP we may be required to further adjust those carrying values for financial reporting purposes. Any resulting downward adjustments are commonly referred to as “write-downs” of the assets affected by the changed conditions.

It is our practice to establish reserves or allowances against which we are able to charge any such downward adjustments or “write-downs” to these assets. Examples include an allowance established for uncollectible accounts receivable (sometimes referred to as “bad debt reserves”), an allowance for inventory obsolescence and a valuation allowance against our deferred tax asset to the extent necessary to reduce its carrying value to the amount of that asset which we believe we are likely to be able to use to reduce our taxes in the future. The amounts at which those allowances or reserves are established and maintained are based on our historical experience and also on our assumptions and judgments about economic or market conditions or trends and any other factors that are expected to affect the values at which we had recorded such assets. We periodically increase or replenish the allowances following write-downs of uncollectible accounts or to take account of increased risks due to changes in economic or market conditions or trends. Increases in the allowances are effectuated by charges to income or increases in expense in the periods when those allowances are increased. As a result, our judgments or assumptions about market and economic conditions or trends and about their effects on our financial performance can and will affect not only the amounts at which we record these assets on our balance sheet, but also our results of operations.

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The decisions as to the timing of (i) adjustments or write-downs of this nature and (ii) the increases we make to our allowances or reserves, also require subjective evaluations or assessments about the effects and duration of changes in economic or market conditions or trends. For example, it is difficult to predict whether events or changes in economic or market conditions, such as increasing gasoline prices or interest rates or economic downturns, will be of short or long-term duration, and it is not uncommon for it to take some time after the onset of such changes for their full effects on our business to be recognized. Therefore, we make such estimates based upon the information available to us at that time and reevaluate and adjust the reserves and allowances for potential write-downs on a quarterly basis.

Under GAAP, most businesses also must make estimates or judgments regarding the periods during which sales are recorded and also the amounts at which they are recorded. In the case of product distribution businesses, which customarily grant to their customers contractual rights to return products sold to them, GAAP requires that a reserve or allowance be established for product returns by means of a reduction in the amount at which sales are recorded, based primarily on the nature, extensiveness and duration of those rights and historical return experience.

In making our estimates and assumptions we follow GAAP and accounting practices applicable to our business that we believe will enable us to make fair and consistent estimates of the carrying values of those assets and to establish adequate reserves or allowances for downward adjustments that we may have to make to those values in future periods.

Our Critical Accounting Policies

Set forth below is a summary of the accounting policies that we believe are material to an understanding of our financial condition and results of operations.

Revenue Recognition and the Allowance for Product Returns. We recognize revenue from the sale of a product upon its shipment to the customer. Shipping and handling costs that are billed to our customers are included in revenue and our shipping and handling costs are included in cost of sales. We provide our customers with limited rights to return products that we sell to them. We establish an allowance for potential returns that reduces the amounts of our reported sales. We estimate the allowance based on historical experience with returns of like products and current economic and market conditions and trends, which can affect the level at which customers submit products for return.

Accounts Receivable and the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. In the normal course of our business we extend 30 day payment terms to our customers and, due to the seasonality of our business, during late fall and winter we sometimes grant payment terms of longer duration to those of our customers that have good credit records. We regularly review our customers’ accounts and estimate the amount of, and establish an allowance for, uncollectible accounts receivable in each reporting period. The amount of the allowance is based on several factors, including the age of unpaid amounts, a review of significant past due accounts and current economic and market trends that can affect the ability of customers to keep their accounts current. Estimates of uncollectible amounts are reviewed periodically to determine if the allowance should be increased, and any increases are recorded in the accounting period in which the events or circumstances that require such increases become known. For example, if the financial condition of some of our customers or economic or market conditions were to deteriorate, adversely affecting the ability of customers to make payments to us on a timely basis, it could become necessary for us to increase the allowance for uncollectible accounts. Since the allowance is increased or replenished by recording a charge which is included in, and has the effect of increasing, selling, general and administrative expenses, an increase in the allowance will reduce income in the period when the increase is recorded.

Inventory and Reserve for Excess, Slow-Moving and Obsolete Inventory. We are a wholesale distributor and not a manufacturer of products and, therefore, all of our inventory consists of finished goods. Inventories are valued at the lower of cost (first-in, first-out) or net realizable value and that value is reduced by an allowance for excess and slowing-moving or obsolete inventories. The amount of the allowance is determined on the basis of historical experience with different product lines and estimates or assumptions concerning future economic and market conditions and trends. If there were to be an economic downturn or a decline in sales, causing inventories of some products to accumulate, it could become necessary for us to increase the allowance. Other factors that can require increases in the allowance or inventory write downs are reductions in pricing or introduction of new or competitive products by manufacturers; however, due to the relative maturity of the markets in which we operate, usually these are not significant factors for us. Increases in this allowance also will cause a decline in operating results as such increases are effectuated by charges against income. Our reserves for excess and obsolete inventory were $1,439,000, or approximately 4.5% of total inventories, at December 31, 2012, as compared to $1,401,000, or approximately 5.3% of total inventories, at December 31, 2011.

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Deferred Tax Asset and Valuation Allowance. We record as a “deferred tax asset” on our balance sheet an amount equal to the tax credit and tax loss carryforwards and tax deductions (“tax benefits”) that we believe will be available to us to offset or reduce our income taxes in future periods. Under applicable federal and state income tax laws and regulations, in most cases, such tax benefits will expire if not used within specified periods of time. Accordingly, the ability to fully use our deferred tax asset depends on the amount of taxable income that we generate during those time periods. At least once each year, we make estimates of future taxable income that we believe we are likely to generate during those future periods. If we conclude, on the basis of those estimates and the aggregate amount of the tax benefits available to us, that it is more likely, than not, that we will be able to fully utilize those tax benefits prior to their expiration, we recognize the deferred tax asset in full on our balance sheet. If, on the other hand, we conclude that it has become more likely, than not, that we will be unable to utilize those tax benefits in their entirety to reduce future taxes prior to their expiration, then we would establish (or increase any existing) valuation allowance to reduce the deferred tax asset on our balance sheet to the amount that we believe we are likely to be able to utilize. That reduction would be implemented by recognizing a non-cash charge that would have the effect of increasing the provision, or reducing any credit, for income taxes that would be recorded in our statement of operations. At December 31, 2012, the aggregate amount of our net deferred tax asset was approximately $3.1 million, as compared to $2.9 million at December 31, 2011. This increase was largely attributable to an increase in our NOL carryforwards in 2012.

Long-Lived Assets. Long-lived assets are reviewed for possible impairment at least annually or if and when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of any of those assets may not be recoverable in full, by comparing the fair value of the long-lived asset to its carrying amount.

Foreign Currency Translation. The financial position and results of operations of our Canadian and other foreign subsidiaries are measured using local currency as the functional currency. Assets and liabilities of each foreign subsidiary are translated into U.S. dollars at the rate of exchange in effect at the end of each reporting period. Revenues and expenses are translated into U.S. dollars at the average exchange rate for the reporting period. Foreign currency translation gains and losses not impacting cash flows are credited to or charged against other comprehensive earnings. Foreign currency translation gains and losses arising from cash transactions are credited to or charged against current earnings.

Stock-Based Compensation Expense. We account for stock-based compensation expense in accordance with ASC 718, Stock Compensation, which requires us to recognize the fair value of the compensation paid in stock or other equity awards as an expense in the calculation of our net earnings or loss. We recognize stock-based compensation expense over the period in which the employee is required to provide service, which is generally over the vesting period of the individual equity award. Stock options issued in lieu of cash to non-employees, such as directors, for services performed for us are recorded at the fair value of the options at the time they are issued and are expensed as service is provided. Stock-based compensation expense in the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 totaled $456,000 and $440,000, respectively.

Warranty Costs. We generally do not independently warrant the products that we distribute. Instead, in almost all cases, the manufacturers of the products that we distribute warrant the products and allow us to return defective products, including those that have been returned to us by our customers. However, we sell a line of portable generators under a product supply arrangement which obligates us to provide warranty services for these products and to share the costs of providing those services with the manufacturer. The duration of the warranty period for these products is 24 months following the retail sale of these products to the consumer. We established a reserve for warranty claims with respect to these products of $690,000 and $564,000 at December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively. Those amounts were determined on the basis of a number of factors, including our sales of those products and our historical and expected future warranty claims experience. In the event changes occur in the conditions or circumstances upon which those assumptions and estimates were made, it could become necessary for us to increase the reserve by means of a charge to our income.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Changes to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) are established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) in the form of Accounting Standards Updates (“ASU’s”) to the FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification.

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We consider the applicability of new ASUs and evaluate their expected impact on our financial condition and reported operating results following their issuance. We have determined that the following recently announced ASUs are applicable to us and could have an impact on our recorded results of operations.

In July 2012, the FASB issued amended guidance for impairment of indefinite-lived intangible assets. The guidance allows for an option to first access qualitative factors to determine whether the existence of events or circumstances leads to a determination that is more likely than not that the fair value of the indefinite-lived intangible asset exceeds its carrying amount. If the qualitative factors leads us to conclude it is more likely than not that the fair value exceeds the carrying value of the indefinite-lived intangible asset, then the fair value does not need to be calculated. This update was effective for annual and interim impairment tests performed for the fiscal years beginning after September 15, 2012. Accordingly, the amended guidance will be effective for the year ending December 31, 2013. We do not expect that the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on our results of operations as we do not have a material amount of indefinite-lived intangible assets on our books.

In June 2011, the FASB issued an amendment to an existing accounting standard which requires companies to present net income and other comprehensive income in one continuous statement or in two separate, but consecutive, statements. In addition, in December 2011, the FASB issued an amendment to an existing accounting standard which defers the requirement to present components of reclassifications of other comprehensive income on the face of the income statement. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of 2012 and it did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2012.

Results of Operations

The following table sets forth certain financial data, expressed as percentage of net sales, derived from our statements of operations for the respective periods indicated below:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
Net sales		100.0	%		100.0	%		100.0	%
Cost of sales		84.8			83.3			81.9	%
Gross profit		15.2			16.7			18.1
SG&A expenses		17.1			17.2			16.9
Operating income (loss)		(1.9	)		(0.5	)		1.2
Interest expense		(0.5	)		(0.5	)		0.5
Earnings (loss) before taxes		(2.3	)		(1.1	)		0.5
Income tax provision (benefit)		(0.5	)		(0.2	)		0.4
Net earnings (loss)		(1.8	)%		(0.8	)%		0.1

Net Sales

Net sales consist of revenues from the sales of the products we supply or distribute, net of an allowance for product returns. The following table sets forth certain information regarding the changes in our net sales in fiscal 2012 and 2011, in each case as compared to the immediately preceding year. Dollars in the table are in thousands.

2012	2011	% Change 2012 vs. 2011	2010	% Change 2011 vs. 2010
$ 113,521	$108,195	4.9%	$108,600	(0.4)%

2012 vs. 2011. We believe that the increase in net sales in 2012 as compared to 2011 was due primarily to: (i) a strengthening of economic conditions and an increase in consumer confidence which led to modest increases in purchases and the usage of RVs and, therefore, in the products we sell, (ii) new marketing programs that we initiated in 2012, and (iii) an increase in sales of generators and other proprietary products to specialty retailers and mass merchandisers, which represents a new distribution channel for us.

2011 vs. 2010. We believe that the decrease in net sales in 2011 as compared to 2010 was due to (i) continuing uncertainties about the strength of the economy and persistently high rates of unemployment, which adversely affected consumer confidence and the willingness of consumers to make discretionary expenditures involved in purchasing and using RVs, and (ii) rising gasoline prices, particularly during the last four months of 2011, which increased the costs and reduced the willingness of consumers to use their RVs and boats. Also contributing to the decline in the net sales during 2011 were unusually severe weather conditions in the Northeastern U.S. and Canada in the first half of 2011, which led to reductions in the usage of RVs by consumers in those regions and, therefore, in their need for and their purchases of the products we sell.

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Gross Profit

Gross profit is calculated by subtracting cost of sales from net sales. Cost of sales consist primarily of the amounts paid to manufacturers and suppliers for the products that we purchase for resale, inbound freight charges, merchandise receiving, handling and storage costs, and out-bound freight charges. Gross margin is gross profit stated as a percentage of net sales.

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(Dollars in thousands)
Gross profit	$	17,302		$	18,029		$	19,615
Gross margin		15.2	%		16.7	%		18.1	%

2012 vs. 2011. The declines in our gross profit and our gross margin in 2012, as compared to 2011, was primarily due to (i) selected price reductions we made in response to aggressive price competition by competitors seeking to increase their sales in the face of weak consumer demand in the RV markets, (ii) a weakening of the Canadian dollar, as compared to the U.S. dollar, in the first half of 2012, which increased the costs to our Canadian subsidiary of purchasing products from suppliers in the United States, (iii) increases in shipping costs, (iv) an increase in costs associated with quality control testing of new models of portable generators and trailer hitches and other towing products that we introduced and began selling in 2012, and (v) an increase in reserves that we had established for possible warranty claims with respect to the generators we sell, due primarily to increases in our sales of those products.

2011 vs. 2010. The decrease in our gross profit and the resulting decrease in our gross margin in 2011, as compared to 2010, was primarily due to (i) a change in the mix of products sold to a greater proportion of products, such as air conditioners, on which we realize lower margins than we do on sales of our other products, and (ii) selected price reductions that we implemented in response to increased price competition in our markets.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative (“SG&A”) expenses consist primarily of selling and marketing costs, and administrative labor and other administrative expenses, professional fees, insurance and the provision made for uncollectible accounts. The majority of our corporate overhead costs are incurred in the United States. A portion of those costs are allocated to our foreign subsidiaries to the extent that they directly benefit from those expenses.

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(Dollars in thousands)
SG&A expenses	$	19,435		$	18,573		$	18,330
As a percentage of net sales		17.1	%		17.2	%		16.9	%

2012 vs. 2011. In 2012, SG&A expenses increased by $862,000, in absolute dollars, but decreased as a percentage of net sales from 17.2% in 2011, to 17.1% in 2012. The increase in SG&A expenses in 2012 was due primarily to new marketing programs that we implemented and the hiring of additional field sales people in 2012, in order to increase sales and gain market share.

2011 vs. 2010. In 2009 and 2008 we implemented a number of cost cutting measures in response to the economic recession, including reductions in salaries and wages in both of those years. Effective July 1, 2010 we restored, on a prospective basis, one-half of those salary and wage reductions. In 2011, SG&A expenses increased by $243,000, primarily because those expenses included a full 12 months of that partial restoration. By comparison, SG&A expenses in 2010 included that partial restoration for six months.

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Operating Income (Loss)

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(Dollars in thousands)
Operating income (loss)	$	(2,133	)	$	(554	)	$	1,285
As a percentage of net sales		(1.9	)%		(0.5	)%		1.2	%

2012 vs. 2011. The $1,589,000, or 292.1%, decrease in operating income in 2012, as compared to 2011, was primarily the result of the decline in gross profits and the increase in SG&A expenses in 2012 described above.

2011 vs. 2010. The $1,829,000, or 142.3%, decrease in operating income in 2011, as compared to 2010, was primarily the result of the decline in gross profit and, to a much lesser extent, the increase in SG&A expenses in 2011.

Other Expense

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(Dollars in thousands)
Other expense
Interest expense	$	552		$	540		$	579
Other expense		70			92			194
Total	$	622		$	632		$	773
As a percentage of net sales		0.5	%		0.6	%		0.7	%

Other expense consists of the interest expense that we incur on borrowings and, to a lesser extent, foreign currency gains or losses and gains or losses on disposal of assets.

2012 vs. 2011. Interest expense increased in 2012 by $12,000, or 2.2%, as compared to 2011, due to an increase in average borrowings outstanding in 2012 as compared to 2011.

2011 vs. 2010. Interest expense decreased in 2011 by $39,000, or 6.7%, as compared to 2010, due primarily to a decrease in the average rate of interest charged on our bank borrowings in 2011, which was due primarily to declines in market rates of interest which determine the interest rates which the bank charges us on those borrowings.

Income Tax Provision (Benefit)

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(Dollars in thousands)
Income tax provision (benefit)	$	(581	)	$	(255	)	$	417
Effective tax rate		22.4	%		22.3	%		73.3	%

Our effective income tax rate is affected primarily by the amount of our expenses that are not deductible for income tax purposes, including stock-based compensation expense, and by varying tax rates on income generated by our foreign subsidiaries, because tax rates in their respective countries vary, sometimes considerably, from income tax rates in the United States. In addition, in years when our income or loss is marginal, state franchise and other taxes can lead to increases in our overall tax rate (or decreases in our tax benefit), as occurred in 2010.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Working Capital, Liquidity and Cash Flows

We finance our working capital requirements for our operations primarily with borrowings under a revolving bank line of credit and internally generated funds. See “Sources and Uses of Cash” below.

Due to the nature of our business, our primary needs for working capital are to finance our accounts receivable and our purchases of inventory. Typically we bill our customers on an open account basis with 1%, 10 day, net 30-day terms. During late fall and in winter, however, we sometimes provide our most creditworthy customers with payment terms of longer duration and, as a result, we generally use a greater proportion of our borrowing availability during the first and second quarters of each year than during other parts of the year.

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Our revolving bank line of credit agreement permits us to borrow up to the lesser of (i) $25,000,000, or (ii) an amount equal to the sum of 85% of the value of our eligible accounts receivable and 55% of the value of our eligible inventory. Our borrowing base under our revolving credit line was $16,800,000 at December 31, 2012 as compared to $15,300,000 at December 31, 2011. Interest is payable at the bank’s prime rate (3.25% at December 31, 2012) plus 1.75% or, at the Company’s option but subject to certain limitations, at the bank’s LIBOR rate (0.21% at December 31, 2012) plus 3.25%. At March 8, 2013, outstanding borrowings under the revolving credit facility totaled $18,475,000.

As of December 31, 2012, we were in compliance with all of our financial and other covenants under our bank line of credit agreement, due to an extension by the bank of the measurement date of a fixed charge coverage covenant to March 31, 2013. That covenant will require us to achieve a fixed charge coverage ratio of at least 1.1-to-1.0 for rolling 12 month periods ending on the last day of each fiscal quarter, commencing with the quarter that will end on March 31, 2013. The bank also has reduced the maximum amount of credit line borrowings that is available to us by $1 million until we meet that covenant.

Our bank borrowings are collateralized by substantially all of our consolidated assets and rank senior in priority to any other indebtedness that we may be permitted to incur by the bank.

The maturity date of this revolving bank line of credit is July 10, 2014. However, if we fail to meet the fixed charge coverage ratio for the 12 months ended March 31, 2013, then, unless the bank agrees to further extend the initial measurement date of that covenant, the bank could require us to pay off our borrowings sooner, which could force us to significantly reduce our business and, therefore, adversely affect our sales and operating results, unless we are able to obtain a line of credit from another lender. There is no assurance that the bank will further extend the initial measurement date of the fixed charge coverage covenant or, if necessary, that we will be able to obtain a new line of credit from another lender. See “RISK FACTORS — We rely heavily on bank borrowings to fund our business, which makes us more vulnerable to adverse changes in economic conditions and creates liquidity risks for us” in Item 1A above in this report.

Sources and Uses of Cash

We generally use cash for, rather than generate cash from, operations in the first half of the year, because we build inventories, and accounts receivables increase, as our customers begin increasing their product purchases prior to and in anticipation of the spring and summer selling seasons. See “Seasonality and Inflation” below.

Cash Used in Operations in 2012 and 2011. During 2012, we used cash of $2.1 million in our operations, primarily to fund our net loss of $2.0 million and a $4.4 million increase in inventory, partially offset by $2.7 million increase in accounts payable, a $1.0 million reduction in accounts receivable, and $0.7 million of depreciation and amortization expense and $0.5 million of stock-based compensation expense, which are non-cash expenses. By comparison, in 2011, we used cash of $0.7 million for our operations, primarily to fund our net loss of $0.9 million and a $1.0 million increase in accounts receivable, partially offset by $0.8 million in depreciation and amortization expenses and $0.4 million in stock-based compensation expense.

Cash Flows Used in Investing Activities in 2012 and 2011. In 2012 and 2011, we used $0.5 million and $0.4 million of cash, respectively, in investing activities, principally to fund purchases of other assets and capital expenditures, primarily for warehouse, office, and computer equipment.

Cash Provided by Financing Activities in 2012 and 2011. During 2012, our borrowings and repayments of long-term debt under our revolving bank line of credit substantially offset each other and as a result, financing activities provided cash of $28,000 in 2012. During 2011, our financing activities provided us with $0.8 million of cash as borrowings exceeded repayments under our bank line of credit in 2011.

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Contractual Obligations

Lease Obligations. We lease our facilities and certain of our equipment under non-cancelable operating leases. In 2012, rent expense under all operating leases totaled approximately $3.9 million. The following table sets forth our future operating lease commitments (in thousands of dollars), as of December 31, 2012:

Year Ending December 31,
2013	$	3,755
2014		3,442
2015		3,281
2016		2,797
2017		531
Thereafter		1,373
	$	15,179

Total and Maturity of Contractual Obligations. The following table sets forth the total and the maturities of our contractual obligations, in thousands of dollars, at December 31, 2012:

	Maturities of Contractual Obligations
Contractual obligations at December 31, 2012:	Total of Contractual Obligations		Less than One Year		More than One and less than Four Years		Four to Five Years		More than Five Years
Long-term debt obligations(1)	$	10,933	$	—	$	10,933	$	—	$	—
Operating lease obligations		15,179		3,755		6,723		3,328		1,373
	$	26,112	$	3,755	$	17,656	$	3,328	$	1,373

(1) Consists of borrowings under our bank credit facility, which matures in July 2014.

Our long term debt obligations consist primarily of borrowings under our long term revolving bank credit agreement. It is not possible to calculate future estimated interest payments on those borrowing predictably, because the amounts of such borrowings fluctuate throughout the year depending on our liquidity needs, which can vary widely primarily due to the seasonality of our business and the effects of prevailing economic conditions on the demand for and the purchases of our products by customers. Also, the interest rate on those borrowings is determined by reference to the bank’s prime rate or LIBOR, which also can and often do fluctuate during the year. Additionally, the formulas for determining the specific interest rate that will apply to such borrowings can change from year to year. Set forth above, under the caption “—Liquidity and Capital Resources — Working Capital Liquidity and Cash Flows” are the formulas for determining the interest rates that will apply to those borrowings during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2013.

Dividend Policy and Dividend Payments. In 2005, our Board of Directors adopted a dividend policy that provided for the payment of quarterly cash dividends to our stockholders. In November 2008, our Board of Directors suspended the payment of cash dividends in order to preserve cash for operations in response to the worsening of the economic recession and the tightening of credit by banks and other lending institutions to businesses, as well as consumers. In addition, our bank credit line agreement contains restrictions on our payment of cash dividends. As a result, we do not anticipate paying cash dividends at least for the foreseeable future.

Expected Uses and Sources of Funds

We expect to make capital expenditures in 2013 that we estimate will range from $300,000 to $500,000. We expect that these expenditures will be of a recurring nature, for such purposes as the replacement and upgrading of warehouse, computer or office equipment in the ordinary course of our business.

We expect to be able to fund these expenditures and our working capital requirements primarily with borrowings under our revolving bank line of credit. However, see the discussion of the liquidity risks we face in Item 1A of this report under the caption “RISK FACTORS — We rely heavily on bank borrowings to fund our business, which makes us more vulnerable to adverse changes in economic conditions and creates liquidity risks for us” and above in this Item 7 under the subcaption “Contractual Obligations.”

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We will continue to explore opportunities to increase our sales and our market share and to improve our profit margins by, among other things, establishing new product supply relationships that we believe will enable us to increase the products that we source from lower cost, but high quality, overseas suppliers, including product suppliers in Asia, and to invest in tooling needed for such products. As a result, we may have occasion in the future to use internally generated funds or bank borrowings for these purposes. There is no assurance, however, that, if required, we will be able to obtain bank borrowings for these purposes.

Seasonality and Inflation

Seasonality. We generate significantly higher sales during the six-month period from March through August, when usage of RVs and boats are at their peak, than we do during the remainder of the year when weather conditions are not optimal for outdoor activities. Because a substantial portion our expenses are fixed, operating income declines and we may incur losses, and must rely more heavily on borrowings to fund operating requirements, during the period from September through February when our sales are lower.

The following tables present unaudited quarterly financial information for each of the fiscal years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011. This information has been prepared by us on a basis consistent with our audited financial statements included elsewhere in this Report. The information includes all necessary adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, that management considers necessary for a fair presentation of the unaudited quarterly operating results when read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included elsewhere in this Report. These quarterly operating results are not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected in future periods.

	March 31, 2012			June 30, 2012		September 30, 2012		December 31, 2012
	(Unaudited)
Net sales	$	24,248		$	34,115	$	34,484	$	20,674
Gross profit		3,409			5,069		5,688		2,596
Net earnings (loss)		(1,345	)		504		307		(1,480	)
Net earnings (loss per share — Diluted		(0.30	)		0.11		0.07		(0.32	)

	March 31, 2011			June 30, 2011		September 30, 2011		December 31, 2011
	(Unaudited)
Net sales	$	24,697		$	33,218	$	31,586	$	18,694
Gross profit		3,898			6,302		5,706		2,123
Net earnings (loss)		(1,039	)		980		612		(1,439	)
Net earnings (loss per share — Diluted		(0.23	)		0.21		0.13		(0.32	)

Inflation. Generally, we have been able to pass inflationary price increases on to our customers. However, inflation also may cause or may be accompanied by increases in gasoline prices and interest rates. Such increases, or even the prospect of increases in the price or shortages in the supply of gasoline, can adversely affect the purchase and usage of RVs and boats, which can result in a decline in the demand for our products.

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ITEM 7A QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Our exposure to market risk with respect to financial instruments is primarily related to changes in interest rates with respect to borrowing activities, which may adversely affect our financial position, results of operations and cash flows. In seeking to minimize the risks from interest rate fluctuations, we manage exposures through our regular operating and financing activities. The fair value of borrowings under our revolving credit facility approximates the carrying value of such obligations. As of December 31, 2012, we had outstanding borrowings under our revolving bank line of credit of $10.9 million.

We have substantial sales operations in Canada and as a result, our earnings, cash flows and financial position can be affected by movements in the Canadian dollar exchange rate. Consequently, we are exposed to market risk from foreign currency fluctuations associated with our Canadian operations and our Canadian currency denominated debt. Therefore, from time to time, we may hedge the net investment of our foreign operations in Canada by purchasing foreign exchange derivatives, to mitigate the risk of changes in value of our net investment in our Canadian subsidiary that can occur as a result of changes in currency exchange rates. As of December 31, 2012 we held no foreign currency derivatives. We do not use derivatives or other financial instruments for trading or other speculative purposes.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

THE COAST DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

	Page No.
Consolidated Financial Statements:
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm		29
Consolidated Balance Sheets, December 31, 2012 and 2011		30
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010		31
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Earnings (Loss) for the Years Ended December  31, 2012, 2011 and 2010		32
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the Years Ended December  31, 2012, 2011 and 2010		33
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010		34
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements		35
Financial Statement Schedules:
Schedule II — Valuation and Qualifying Accounts for the Years Ended December  31, 2012, 2011 and 2010		47
(Other Financial Statement Schedules are omitted as the information is not required, is not material or is otherwise furnished.)

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of The Coast Distribution System, Inc.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of The Coast Distribution System, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the related statements of operations, comprehensive earnings (loss), stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for the three years in the period ended December 31, 2012. Our audits also included the financial statement schedule listed in Item 15(a) (2). These financial statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and the results of their operations and their cash flows in each of the years in the three year period ended December 31, 2012 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects the information set forth therein.

/s/ BURR PILGER MAYER, INC.

Burr Pilger Mayer, Inc.

E. Palo Alto, California

March 29, 2013

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(Dollars in thousands, except per share data)

	As of December 31,
	2012		2011
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	1,942	$	4,180
Accounts receivable (less allowance for doubtful accounts of $311 in 2012 and $387 in 2011)		9,933		10,900
Inventories, net		30,289		25,852
Deferred tax asset, net		1,849		1,787
Prepaid expenses		848		736
Income tax refunds receivable, net		510		206
Total current assets		45,371		43,661
Property, plant and equipment, net		1,188		1,313
Other assets		3,100		2,762
	$	49,659	$	47,736
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	$	6,135	$	3,394
Accrued liabilities		3,518		3,223
Total current liabilities		9,653		6,617
Long-term obligations
Line of credit		10,933		10,895
Total liabilities		20,586		17,512
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders’ Equity:
Preferred stock, $.001 par value; authorized: 2,000,000 shares; none issued or outstanding		—		—
Common stock, $.001 par value; authorized: 10,000,000 shares; 4,923,431 and 4,781,597 issued as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively		17,766		17,320
Accumulated other comprehensive earnings		1,904		1,487
Retained earnings		9,403		11,417
Total stockholders’ equity		29,073		30,224
	$	49,659	$	47,736

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(Dollars in thousands, except per share data)
Net sales	$	113,521		$	108,195		$	108,600
Cost of sales (including distribution costs)		96,219			90,166			88,985
Gross profit		17,302			18,029			19,615
Selling, general and administrative expenses		19,435			18,573			18,330
Operating income (loss)		(2,133	)		(544	)		1,285
Equity in net earnings of unconsolidated affiliates		160			35			57
Other expense
Interest expense		(552	)		(540	)		(579	)
Other		(70	)		(92	)		(194	)
Earnings (loss) before income taxes		(2,595	)		(1,141	)		569
Income tax provision (benefit)		(581	)		(255	)		417
Net earnings (loss)	$	(2,014	)	$	(886	)	$	152
Basic earnings (loss) per share	$	(0.44	)	$	(0.20	)	$	0.03
Diluted earnings (loss) per share	$	(0.44	)	$	(0.20	)	$	0.03

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE EARNINGS (LOSS)

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(Dollars in thousands)
Net earnings (loss)	$	(2,014	)	$	(886	)	$	152
Other comprehensive earnings (loss):
Foreign currency translation adjustment		417			(387	)		760
Comprehensive earnings (loss)	$	(1,597	)	$	(1,273	)	$	912

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(Dollars in thousands)

	Common Stock						Accumulated Other Comprehensive Earnings (Loss)			Retained Earnings			Total
	Number of Shares			Amounts
Balance at January 1, 2010		4,449,431		$	16,367		$	1,114		$	12,151		$	29,632
Net earnings for the year		—						—			152			152
Foreign currency translation adjustments		—			—			760			—			760
Issuance of common stock under option plans		33,666			65			—			—			65
Issuance of restricted shares of common stock under equity incentive plan		177,000			—			—			—			—
Stock-based compensation		—			429			—			—			429
Balance at December 31, 2010		4,660,097			16,861			1,874			12,303			31,038
Net loss for the year		—						—			(886	)		(886	)
Foreign currency translation adjustments		—			—			(387	)		—			(387	)
Issuance of common stock under option plans		7,000			19			—			—			19
Issuance of restricted shares of common stock under equity incentive plan		114,500			—			—			—			—
Stock-based compensation		—			440			—			—			440
Balance at December 31, 2011		4,781,597			17,320			1,487			11,417			30,224
Net loss for the year		—						—			(2,014	)		(2,014	)
Foreign currency translation adjustments		—			—			417			—			417
Issuance of common stock under employee option plans		3,334			3			—			—			3
Reduction in pool of windfall tax benefits		—			(13	)		—			—			(13	)
Issuance of restricted shares of common stock under equity incentive plan		147,500			—			—			—			—
Cancellation of restricted shares of common stock		(9,000	)		—			—			—			—
Stock-based compensation		—			456			—			—			456
Balance at December 31, 2012		4,923,431		$	17,766		$	1,904		$	9,403		$	29,073

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(Dollars in thousands)

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net earnings (loss)	$	(2,014	)	$	(886	)	$	152
Adjustments to reconcile net earnings (loss) to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation		652			657			716
Amortization		59			161			37
Loss from sale of property and equipment		35			31			2
Equity in net earnings of unconsolidated affiliates, net of distributions		(160	)		(35	)		(57	)
Loss from transfer of ownership in affiliated company		—			—			98
Stock-based compensation expense		456			440			428
Deferred income taxes		(220	)		(166	)		51
Change in assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable		967			(1,037	)		(1,032	)
Inventory		(4,437	)		60			(2,927	)
Prepaids and income tax refunds receivable		(449	)		58			425
Accounts payable		2,741			19			433
Accrued liabilities		295			(33	)		107
Net cash used in operating activities		(2,075	)		(731	)		(1,567	)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Proceeds from sale of property and equipment		23			22			44
Increase in other assets		(160	)		(123	)		(63	)
Capital expenditures		(394	)		(329	)		(247	)
Net cash used in investing activities		(531	)		(430	)		(266	)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Borrowings under line-of credit agreements		124,949			110,648			108,945
Repayments under line-of credit agreements		(124,911	)		(109,866	)		(108,469	)
Repayments of capital lease obligations		—			—			(111	)
Issuance of common stock under employee equity incentive plans		3			19			65
Reduction in pool of windfall tax benefits		(13	)		—			—
Net cash provided by financing activities		28			801			430
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash		340			(300	)		682
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents		(2,238	)		(660	)		(721	)
Cash and cash equivalents beginning of year		4,180			4,840			5,561
Cash and cash equivalents end of year	$	1,942		$	4,180		$	4,840
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
Cash paid (refunded) during the year for:
Interest	$	552		$	522		$	579
Income taxes		(164	)		(24	)		(79	)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

NOTE A: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

A summary of the significant accounting policies consistently applied in the preparation of the accompanying consolidated financial statements follows:

1. Principles of Consolidation. The Company consolidates the accounts of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, The Coast Distribution System (Canada) Inc. (“Coast Canada”) and Eur-Asia Recreational Vehicle Accessories Taiwan Company (“Coast Taiwan”). Investments in unconsolidated affiliates are accounted for by the equity method. All material intercompany transactions have been eliminated.

2. Inventories. All of our inventory consists of finished goods, which are comprised of replacement parts, supplies and accessories held for resale. Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (determined on a first-in, first-out basis) or net realizable value. We regularly assess the appropriateness of the inventory valuations with particular attention to obsolete, slow-moving and non-saleable inventory. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, our reserves for excess and obsolete inventory were $1,439,000 and $1,401,000, respectively.

3. Property, Plant and Equipment. Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization are provided for in amounts sufficient to relate the cost of depreciable assets to operations over their estimated service lives, principally on a straight-line basis. The estimated lives used in determining depreciation and amortization are:

Buildings and improvements	12 – 40 years
Warehouse and office equipment	5 – 7 years
Automobiles	3 – 5 years

Leasehold improvements are amortized over the lives of the respective leases or the service lives of the improvements, whichever is shorter. Currently the amortization periods range from 5 to 15 years.

4. Revenue Recognition. Revenue from sales of products is recognized upon shipment. Shipping and handling costs that are billed to our customers are included in revenue. We provide our customers with a limited right of return. We establish an allowance for potential returns which reduces the amounts of our reported sales. We estimate the allowance based on historical experience with returns of like products and current economic data, which can affect the level at which customers submit product returns.

5. Segment Reporting. We have one operating segment, which is the distribution of recreational vehicle and boating replacement parts, supplies and accessories. We distribute our recreational vehicle and boating products from 17 distribution centers located throughout the United States and Canada. No single customer accounted for 10% or more of our net sales in 2012, 2011 or 2010.

6. Long-Lived Assets. Long-lived assets are reviewed for possible impairment at least annually or, more frequently, if and when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of any of those assets may not be recoverable in full, by comparing the fair value of the long-lived asset to its carrying amount.

7. Foreign Currency Translation. Exchange adjustments resulting from foreign currency transactions are generally recognized in net earnings; whereas adjustments resulting from the translation of financial statements are reflected as a separate component of stockholders’ equity. The functional currency of our Canadian subsidiary is the Canadian dollar.

8. Derivative Financial Instruments. We sometimes use derivatives to partially offset our exposure to fluctuations in certain foreign currencies. We do not enter into derivatives for speculative or trading purposes. Derivatives are recorded at fair value on the balance sheet and gains or losses resulting from changes in fair value of a derivative are recorded based on the derivative’s hedge designation.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Cont.-)

9. Cash and Cash Equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents include highly liquid instruments with maturities of three months or less and overnight investments funded with cash from sweep accounts maintained by the Company at one or more banks.

10. Income Taxes. We provide a deferred tax expense or benefit equal to the net change in the deferred tax liability or asset during the year. Deferred income taxes represent tax deductions and tax loss carryforwards and future net tax effects resulting from temporary differences between the book and tax bases of assets and liabilities, using enacted tax rates. A valuation allowance is established against deferred tax assets if and to the extent we determine that it is more likely, than not, that the deferred tax assets will not be realized in full.

11. Use of Estimates. In preparing financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), we are required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

12. Earnings (Loss) per Share. Basic earnings (loss) per share for any period are computed using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during that period. Unvested restricted shares are excluded from outstanding shares for purposes of this calculation. Diluted earnings (loss) per share are computed using the weighted average number of common and potentially dilutive securities outstanding during the period. Potentially dilutive securities consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon exercise of stock options and vested restricted shares (using the treasury stock method). Potentially dilutive securities are excluded from the computation if their effect is anti-dilutive.

Options to purchase 433,000, 546,001 and 422,000 shares in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively, were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings (loss) per share because the respective exercise prices per share of those options were greater than the average market price of our shares of common stock during the year, or because by including the unvested compensation expense associated with the options, the calculation of common stock equivalents under the treasury method would be anti-dilutive. In addition, 312,501, 232,501 and 177,000 restricted shares were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings (loss) per share in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively, because their inclusion in that computation would have been anti-dilutive.

13. Fair Value Measurement of Financial Assets and Liabilities. We apply fair value accounting for all financial assets and liabilities and non-financial assets and liabilities that are recognized or disclosed at fair value in the financial statements on a recurring basis. We define fair value as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities that are required to be recorded at fair value, we consider the principal or most advantageous market in which we would transact and the market-based risk measurements or assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, such as inherent risk, transfer restrictions and credit risk.

GAAP establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring the fair values of financial and non-financial assets and liabilities. These tiers consist of:

Level 1: Quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities

Level 2: Observable market based inputs or unobservable inputs that are corroborated by market data

Level 3: Unobservable inputs that are not corroborated by market data

The following tables summarize the fair value measurements (in thousands of dollars) of our financial assets and liabilities:

	At December 31, 2012
	Total		Quoted market prices in active markets (level 1)		Significant other observable Inputs (level 2)
Cash equivalents – Overnight Investments	$	1,283	$	—	$	1,283

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Cont.-)

	At December 31, 2011
	Total		Quoted market prices in active markets (level 1)		Significant other observable Inputs (level 2)
Cash equivalents – Overnight Investments	$	3,190	$	—	$	3,190

The Company had no level 3 assets or liabilities at December 31, 2012 and 2011.

We use the income approach to value derivatives, using observable Level 2 market expectations at the measurement date and standard valuation techniques to convert future amounts to a single discounted present amount, assuming that participants are motivated but not compelled to transact. Level 2 inputs are limited to quoted prices that are observable for the asset and liabilities, which include interest rate and credit risk. We have used mid-market pricing as a practical expedient for fair value measurements.

14. Accounts Receivable and the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. The majority of our accounts receivable are due from RV dealers, supply stores and service centers. Credit is extended to a customer based on evaluation of its financial condition and, generally, collateral is not required. We maintain allowances for doubtful accounts for estimated losses that would result from the inability of customers to make required payments on their accounts. We regularly evaluate the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts. We estimate potential losses on our accounts receivable on the basis of the aging of accounts receivable balances, a review of significant past due accounts, and our historical write-off experience, net of recoveries. If the financial condition of our customers were to deteriorate, whether due to deteriorating economic conditions generally or otherwise, adversely affecting their ability to make payments, we would make additional provisions to increase the allowance for doubtful accounts.

15. Stock-Based Compensation. We account for stock-based compensation in accordance with ASC 718, Stock Compensation, which requires the recognition of the fair value of compensation paid in stock or other equity instruments as an expense in the calculation of net earnings (loss). Accordingly, we recognize stock-based compensation expense in the period in which the employee to whom stock-based compensation is awarded is required to provide service, which is generally over the vesting period of the individual equity instruments. Stock options granted in lieu of cash to non-employees for services performed are recorded at the fair value of the options at the time they are granted and are expensed as service is provided by the optionee. We record stock-based compensation expense for restricted share awards based on the fair market value of the shares on their respective award dates and such expense is recorded over the respective vesting periods of the awards.

16. Warranty Costs. We generally do not independently warrant the products that we distribute. Instead, in most instances, the manufacturers warrant their products and allow us to return defective products, including those that have been returned to us by our customers. However, we sell a line of portable generators under a product supply arrangement which obligates us to provide warranty services for these products and provides for us to share the costs of providing those services with the manufacturer. The warranty period is 24 months following the sale of the product to a retail customer. Accordingly, we maintain a warranty reserve for warranty claims we may receive from customers with respect to the generators they have purchased from us. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, those warranty reserves totaled $690,000 and $564,000, respectively. The actual amounts that we may become obligated to pay with respect to warranty claims on these products may differ from the amounts that are set aside for those reserves, because the reserves have been established on the basis not only of experience, but also on estimates that we make regarding expected warranty returns and costs in the future and actual warranty experience may differ from those estimates.

Although we do not maintain insurance for product warranty claims, we do maintain insurance to protect us against product liability claims relating to all of the products we distribute and sell, including the generator products.

17. Liquidity. We have had negative cash flows from operations in the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, in the amounts of $2.075 million and $0.731 million and $1.567 million, respectively. We have managed our liquidity during that three year period with borrowings under our revolving bank line of credit and, to a lesser extent, by reductions in operating expenses. Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on events outside of our direct control, including, among other things, our financial performance which will be determined by the volume of sales we are able to make and the gross profit we are able to realize, and the continued availability of borrowings

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Cont.-)

under our bank line of credit. We are permitted to borrow under the line of credit up to the lesser of $25 million or an amount equal to the sum of 85% of eligible accounts receivable and 55% of the value of our eligible inventory. At December 31, 2012, we had available unused borrowings under that line of credit of approximately $6.5 million. We believe we have the ability to continue as a going concern at least for the next 12 months.

18. Recent Accounting Pronouncements. With the exception of those discussed below, there have been no recent accounting pronouncements or changes in accounting pronouncements during the year ended December 31, 2012 that we believe are of significance, or potential significance, to the Company based on our current operations.

In July 2012, the FASB issued amended guidance for impairment of indefinite-lived intangible assets. The guidance allows for an option to first access qualitative factors to determine whether the existence or events or circumstances leads to a determination that is more likely than not that the fair value of the indefinite-lived intangible asset exceeds its carrying amount. If the qualitative factors lead us to conclude it is more likely than not that the fair value exceeds the carrying value of the indefinite-lived intangible asset, then the fair value does not need to be calculated. This update was effective for annual and interim impairment tests performed for the fiscal years beginning after September 15, 2012. Accordingly, the amended guidance will be effective for the year ending December 31, 2013. We do not expect that the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on our results of operations.

In June 2011, the FASB issued an amendment to an existing accounting standard which requires companies to present net income and other comprehensive income in one continuous statement or in two separate, but consecutive, statements. In addition, in December 2011, the FASB issued an amendment to an existing accounting standard which defers the requirement to present components of reclassifications of other comprehensive income on the face of the income statement. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of 2012 and it did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

NOTE B: PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

Property, plant and equipment, net consist of the following at December 31:

	2012			2011
	(In thousands)
Warehouse equipment	$	5,441		$	5,546
Office equipment		5,241			5,285
Leasehold improvements		1,566			1,635
Automobiles		115			130
		12,363			12,596
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization		(11,175	)		(11,283	)
	$	1,188		$	1,313

Depreciation and amortization expense totaled $711,000, $818,000 and $753,000 in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

NOTE C: LONG-TERM OBLIGATIONS

Long-term obligations consist of the following at December 31:

	2012		2011
	(In thousands)
Secured notes payable to bank under line of credit due July 10, 2014	$	10,933	$	10,895

Secured Notes Payable to Bank

The secured notes payable to bank evidence borrowings under a revolving credit facility which permits us to borrow up to the lesser of (i) $25,000,000, or (ii) an amount equal to 85% of the value of our eligible accounts receivable and up to 55% of the value of our eligible inventory. The Company’s borrowing base at December 31, 2012 was $16,800,000 as compared to $15,300,000, at December 31, 2011. Interest is payable at the bank’s prime rate (3.25% at December 31, 2012) plus 1.75% or, at the Company’s option but subject to certain limitations, at the bank’s LIBOR rate (0.21% at December 31, 2012) plus 3.25%. The credit facility is scheduled to mature at July 10, 2014.

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The revolving bank line of credit agreement, as amended, contains a single financial covenant, which requires us to achieve a fixed charge coverage ratio of at least 1.10 to 1.0 for successive rolling 12 month periods ending on the last day of each fiscal quarter, commencing with the 12 month period ending March 31, 2013. Until that covenant is satisfied, the interest rate on our borrowings will be at LIBOR plus 3.25%, an increase of 0.25%, as compared to the interest rate that was in effect in 2011, and available borrowings under the line of credit will be reduced by $1 million.

At March 8, 2013, outstanding borrowings under the revolving credit facility totaled $18,475,000. Our credit facility borrowings are secured by substantially all of our consolidated assets and rank senior in priority to any other indebtedness that the Company may incur.

NOTE D: COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Operating Leases. We lease our corporate offices, warehouse facilities, and some of our office equipment. These leases are classified as operating leases as they do not meet the required capitalization criteria. The office and warehouse leases expire at various dates over the next twelve years.

Minimum future rental commitments under non-cancelable operating leases as of December 31, 2012, in thousands of dollars, are as follows:

Year Ending December 31,
2013	$	3,755
2014		3,442
2015		3,281
2016		2,797
2017		531
Thereafter		1,373
	$	15,179

Rent expense charged to operations amounted to $3,938,000 in 2012, $4,170,000 in 2011, and $4,511,000 in 2010.

Legal Proceedings. We are subject to legal proceedings, claims and litigation arising in the ordinary course of business, including product liability and personal injury and intellectual property litigation. While the outcome of currently pending litigation is not determinable due to the uncertainties inherent in litigation, based on the information currently available to us, we do not expect that any liabilities or costs that might be incurred to resolve these matters will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

NOTE E: STOCK INCENTIVE PLANS

In August 2012, our shareholders approved the 2012 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2012 Plan”), which provides for the grant of equity incentives, consisting of options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock and restricted stock units to officers, other key employees, directors and consultants. The 2012 Plan initially set aside, for the grant of such equity incentives, 300,000 shares of our common stock, plus an additional 17,666 shares which was equal to the total of the shares that were then available for the grant of new options under our then existing stockholder-approved stock incentive plans (the “Previous Plans”). At the same time, those 17,666 shares ceased to be available for the grant of equity incentive under those Previous Plans. At December 31, 2012, options to purchase a total of 433,000 shares of our common stock and a total of 312,501 shares of restricted stock were outstanding, and 323,833 shares remained available for future grants of equity incentives, under the 2012 Plan.

The Previously Approved Plans had provided that, if any options outstanding under any of those Plans were to expire or otherwise terminate, rather than being exercised, the shares that had been subject to those options would become available for the grant of new options or other equity incentives under those Plans. However, the 2012 Plan provides, instead, that if any of those options expire or terminate for any reason, then, the number of shares that will

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become available for grants or awards of equity incentives under the 2012 Plan will be increased by an equivalent number of shares, instead of becoming available for new equity incentive grants under the Previously Approved Plans. Therefore, if any equity incentives outstanding under the Previously Approved Plans as of December 31, 2012 expire, terminate or are reacquired by the Company, then a number of shares, equal to the number of shares that had been subject to those equity incentives, would become available for future grants under the 2012 Plan and those shares would cease to be available for future grants under the Previously Approved Plans.

Information Regarding Stock Options. The fair value of each option was estimated as of the date of grant using a binomial model. This model incorporates certain assumptions including a risk-free market interest rate, the expected dividend yield of the underlying common stock, the expected life of the option and expected volatility in the market value of the underlying common stock.

We used the following assumptions in estimating the fair value of the options issued in the periods indicated below:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
Expected volatility		59.00	%		72.00	%		71.00	%
Risk free interest rate		1.64	%		2.15	%		2.79	%
Expected dividend yields		N/A			N/A			N/A
Expected lives		10 years			10 years			10 years

Expected volatilities are based on the historical volatility of the Company’s common stock. The risk free interest rate is based upon market yields for United States Treasury debt securities. The expected dividend yields are based upon the Company’s dividend policy in effect in each of the years presented and the fair market value of the Company’s shares at the time of grant. Expected lives are based on several factors including the average holding period of the outstanding options, their remaining terms and the cycle of our long range business plan.

The following tables summarize stock option activity during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011:

	Year Ended December 31, 2012
	Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term		Aggregate Intrinsic Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2012		546,001		$	4.54
Granted		8,000			1.80
Exercised		(3,334	)		0.90
Forfeited		(117,667	)		7.90
Outstanding at December 31, 2012		433,000			3.60		2.4 years	$	157,000
Exercisable at December 31, 2012		425,000			3.64		2.3 years	$	155,000
Options vested and expected (as of December 31, 2012) to vest in the future		433,000			3.60		2.4 years	$	157,000

	Year Ended December 31, 2011
	Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term		Aggregate Intrinsic Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2011		652,001		$	5.01
Granted		8,000			2.74
Exercised		(7,000	)		0.82
Forfeited		(107,000	)		7.54
Outstanding at December 31, 2011		546,001			4.54		2.8 years	$	202,800
Exercisable at December 31, 2011		476,801			5.01		2.7 years	$	131,000
Options vested and expected (as of December 31, 2011) to vest in the future		546,001			4.54		2.8 years	$	202,800

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The aggregate intrinsic value in each of the tables above represents the total pre-tax intrinsic value (the aggregate difference between the closing stock price of the Company’s common stock on December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and the exercise price for in-the-money options that would have been received by the option holders if all in-the-money options had been exercised on December 31, 2012 or 2011, respectively). The total pre-tax intrinsic values of the options exercised during 2012 and 2011 were $3,000 and $21,000, respectively.

The weighted-average grant-date fair values of options granted during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 were $1.28 and $1.97, respectively.

A summary of the status of the Company’s unvested stock options as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and the changes that occurred during each of the years then ended is presented below:

	Shares			Weighted  Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested at January 1, 2012		69,200		$	0.73
Granted		8,000			1.28
Vested		(69,200	)		0.73
Forfeited		—			—
Unvested at December 31, 2012		8,000		$	1.28

	Shares			Weighted  Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested at January 1, 2011		190,100		$	1.11
Granted		8,000			1.97
Vested		(128,900	)		1.37
Forfeited		—			—
Unvested at December 31, 2011		69,200		$	0.73

As of December 31, 2012 and 2011, there was $3,000 and $8,550, respectively, of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested options granted under the Company’s equity incentive plans. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, those costs were expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 0.2 years and 0.5 years, respectively.

Set forth below is additional information with respect to the stock options that were outstanding under our equity incentive plans at December 31, 2012:

Range	Outstanding Options		Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)		Options Exercisable		Weighted Average Exercise Price
$0.63 – $4.50		236,000	$	1.66		2.9		228,000	$	1.65
$4.75 – $9.80		197,000	$	5.94		1.9		197,000	$	5.94
$0.63 – $9.80		433,000	$	3.60		2.4		425,000	$	3.64

Restricted Shares. We awarded a total of 147,500 and 114,500 restricted shares of common stock (“restricted shares”) during 2012 and 2011, respectively, to certain officers and other key management employees under the Company’s equity Plan. Restricted shares are shares of common stock that are granted subject to a risk of possible forfeiture back to the Company, if the recipient of the shares ceases to remain in the Company’s continuous service for a specified period or periods of time. If the recipient remains in the Company’s continuous service for the requisite period of time, the restricted shares will become “vested” (that is, cease to be subject to forfeiture). Until restricted shares become vested, those shares may not be sold or otherwise transferred, in whole or in part, by the holders of those

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shares, and are subject to additional restrictions. We record stock-based compensation expense for restricted share awards based on the fair market value of the shares on their respective award dates and such expense is recorded over the respective vesting periods of the awards. At December 31, 2012, the unrecognized stock-based compensation cost attributable to these restricted shares totaled approximately $578,000 which, as of that date, was expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 1.6 years. As of December 31, 2012, all of the holders of the remaining 312,501 unvested restricted shares were still in the Company’s employ and all of those restricted shares are expected to vest over the remainder of their respective vesting periods. The aggregate intrinsic value of these restricted shares, at December 31, 2012, was $625,000.

A summary of restricted stock activity during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 is presented below:

	Shares			Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2012		232,501		$	4.31
Granted		147,500			2.28
Vested		(58,500	)		4.15
Forfeited		(9,000	)		3.89
Outstanding and unvested at end of year		312,501		$	3.39
	Shares			Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2011		177,000		$	4.15
Granted		114,500			4.47
Vested		(58,999	)		4.15
Forfeited		—			—
Outstanding and unvested at end of year		232,501		$	4.31

NOTE F: EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN

We have established a profit sharing plan in which all full-time employees are eligible to participate beginning the first quarter following the completion of three months of employment with the Company or any of its subsidiaries. This plan allows participants to make pretax contributions and apply for and secure loans from their respective accounts. The plan permits the Company to make discretionary contributions to be determined annually by the Company’s Board of Directors or Compensation Committee. The Company made no contributions to the plan in 2012, 2011 or 2010.

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NOTE G: FOREIGN OPERATIONS

A summary of the Company’s operations by geographic area is presented below for the years ended December 31:

	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Net sales to external customers
United States	$	85,374		$	81,856		$	80,890
Canada		28,147			26,339			27,710
Other		—			—			—
Operating income (loss)
United States	$	(459	)	$	7		$	206
Canada		(1,607	)		(582	)		769
Other		(67	)		31			310
Identifiable assets
United States	$	38,341		$	35,317		$	34,175
Canada		11,009			11,630			12,742
Other		309			789			865

The Company has an equity investment in a corporation which conducts a business that is similar to the Company’s business, but in a much smaller scale, in Mexico. That investment, which is included in long term assets on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet, totaled approximately $935,000 and $710,000 at December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively. The results of operation of this corporation are included in equity in the net earnings of unconsolidated affiliates in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

NOTE H: INCOME TAXES

Pretax income (loss) for the years ending December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was taxed in the following jurisdictions:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Domestic	$	(807	)	$	(500	)	$	(383	)
Foreign		(1,788	)		(641	)		952
	$	(2,595	)	$	(1,141	)	$	569

The provision (benefit) for income taxes in each of 2012, 2011 and 2010 is summarized below:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Current
Federal	$	—		$	—		$	—
State		61			67			86
Foreign		(409	)		(166	)		273
		(348	)		(99	)		359
Deferred
Federal		(171	)		(178	)		(30	)
State		—			—			13
Foreign		(62	)		22			75
		(233	)		(156	)		58
	$	(581	)	$	(255	)	$	417

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Deferred tax assets (liabilities) were comprised of the following at December 31:

	2012			2011
	(In thousands)
Deferred tax assets
Inventory	$	1,187		$	1,185
Bad debt provision		49			85
Property, plant and equipment		109			59
Deferred credits		1,281			1,281
Loss carryforwards		1,054			1,035
Rent		162			150
Other		817			431
Gross deferred tax assets		4,659			4,226
Less valuation allowance(2)		(1,376	)		(1,213	)
		3,283			3,013
Deferred tax liabilities
Property, plant and equipment		(61	)		(22	)
Unremitted earnings of foreign affiliates		(58	)		(77	)
Other		(30	)		—
Gross deferred tax liabilities		(149	)		(99	)
Net deferred tax assets(1)	$	3,134		$	2,914

(1) Of the total deferred tax assets at December 31, 2012 and 2011, $1,849,000 and $1,787,000 were included in current assets and $1,285,000 and $1,127,000 in 2012 and 2011 were included in other long-term assets at December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

(2) The deferred tax valuation allowance increased by $163,000 during 2012, $15,000 during 2011 and $37,000 during 2010.

Set forth below is a reconciliation between actual tax expense and expected tax expense for the respective periods presented below:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Earnings (loss) before income taxes	$	(2,595	)	$	(1,141	)	$	569
Expected income tax expense at 34%	$	(882	)	$	(388	)	$	193
Difference in rates on earnings of foreign operations		83			80			6
Stock based compensation and other nondeductible expenses		27			43			96
State taxes and credits (net of federal benefit)		50			40			80
Change in valuation allowance		—			7			36
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries		(19	)		(1	)		—
Exclusion of earnings of foreign affiliates		(54	)		(12	)		(6	)
Foreign dividend		192			—			—
Other		22			(24	)		12
Income tax provision (benefit)	$	(581	)	$	(255	)	$	417

Deferred income taxes have been provided on the undistributed earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries where it is contemplated that earnings will not be reinvested.

At December 31, 2012, the operating loss carryforwards available for federal and state income tax purposes were $2,033,000 and $4,532,000, respectively. The earliest carryforwards begin to expire in 2013. At December 31, 2012, foreign tax credit carryforwards available for federal income tax purposes totaled $328,000, which expire in 2015. State targeted tax area credit carryforwards of $1,245,000 are available with no expiration dates.

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It is our policy to classify interest and penalties as a component of tax expense. At December 31, 2012 we had $263,000 of unrecognized tax benefits, of which $3,000 impacted our effective tax rate. Interest and penalties totaled $131,000, which was accrued on the balance sheet at December 31, 2012.

The Company and its domestic subsidiaries file income tax returns in the US federal jurisdiction and in various state jurisdictions. The Company’s foreign subsidiaries file income tax returns in the respective jurisdictions in which they are based. With few exceptions, we are no longer subject to tax examinations by taxing authorities for years before 2007. We do not expect total unrecognized tax benefits to change significantly during the year ending December 31, 2013 due to the expiration of any statutes of limitations.

A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amounts of unrecognized tax benefits is as follows:

Unrecognized Tax Benefits (in thousands):	2012		2011
Balance as of January 1,	$	260	$	260
Additions for tax positions related to the current year		3		29
Reductions for tax positions of prior years		—		(29	)
Balance as of December 31,	$	263	$	260

NOTE I: EARNINGS (LOSS) PER SHARE

We calculate basic earnings (loss) per share (EPS) of our common stock for any period by dividing the Company’s net earnings (loss) by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for that period. The calculation of diluted EPS assumes the issuance of common stock for all potentially dilutive share equivalents outstanding. Outstanding stock options and restricted shares were not considered to be dilutive securities for the year ended December 31, 2012 due to the net loss incurred by the Company in 2012. Set forth below are the computations of basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share for each of the following periods:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Numerator:
Net earnings (loss)	$	(2,014	)	$	(886	)	$	152
Denominator:
Weighted average shares outstanding		4,597			4,535			4,475
Dilutive effect of stock options and restricted shares		—			—			99
Denominator for diluted earnings (loss) per share		4,597			4,535			4,574

NOTE J: ACCRUED LIABILITIES

Accrued liabilities consisted of the following at December 31:

	2012		2011
	(In thousands)
Payroll and related benefits	$	703	$	662
Rent		465		429
Income and other taxes		404		413
Other		1,946		1,719
	$	3,518	$	3,223

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NOTE K: WARRANTY RESERVE

We generally do not independently provide warranties on the products that we distribute. Instead, in almost all cases, the manufacturers of the products that we distribute warrant the products and allow us to return defective products, including those that have been returned to us by our customers. However, we sell a line of portable generators under a product supply arrangement which obligates us to provide warranty services for these products and to share the costs of providing those services with the manufacturer. Accordingly, we maintain a reserve against which we charge warranty claims we receive with respect to those generators. The amount of the reserve is determined based primarily on our historical warranty claims experience and the number of portable generators that we sell each year. We periodically increase the warranty reserve to replenish it after it has been reduced by warranty claims charged against it or to increase the reserve in response to increases in claims or in the number of generators that we have sold. Those increases are effectuated by means of a provision for warranty claims which is recorded as a component of our costs of sales in our consolidated statements of operations.

Set forth in the table below is our accrued warranty expense (in thousands), which is included in accrued liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet:

	As of December 31,
	2012			2011
Accrued warranty balance as of January 1,	$	564		$	469
Warranty costs incurred		(1,214	)		(878	)
Provision for warranty claims		1,340			973
Accrued warranty balance as of December 31,	$	690		$	564

NOTE L: SIGNIFICANT CONCENTRATIONS

Our ability to satisfy demand for our products may be limited by the availability of those products from our suppliers. We purchase air conditioners from Airxcel, Inc. (“Airxcel”) and generators from Zhejiang Xingyu Industry and Trade Co., Ltd, (“Zhejiang”). Our purchases from Airxcel accounted for approximately 22%, 20%, and 18% of our total product purchases in 2012, 2011, and 2010, respectively. Our purchases from Zhejiang accounted for 6% of our total product purchases in 2012 and 2011, but less than 5% in 2010.

Concentration of Credit Risk. We maintain bank accounts with high quality financial institutions to minimize credit risk. However, our deposit balances may periodically exceed federal deposit insurance limits.

NOTE M: QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA

	Quarter Ended
	March 31, 2012			June 30, 2012		September 30, 2012		December 31, 2012
	(Unaudited)
Net sales	$	24,248		$	34,115	$	34,484	$	20,674
Gross profit		3,409			5,609		5,688		2,596
Net earnings (loss)		(1,345	)		504		307		(1,480	)
Net earnings (loss) per share – diluted		(0.30	)		0.11		0.07		(0.32	)
	Quarter Ended
	March 31, 2011			June 30, 2011		September 30, 2011		December 31, 2011
	(Unaudited)
Net sales	$	24,697		$	33,218	$	31,586	$	18,694
Gross profit		3,898			6,302		5,706		2,123
Net earnings (loss)		(1,039	)		980		612		(1,439	)
Net earnings (loss) per share – diluted		(0.23	)		0.21		0.13		(0.32	)

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VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS

December 31, 2010, 2011 and 2012

Description	Balance at Beginning of Period		Adjustments			Write Off of Bad Debts			Balance at End of Period
Allowance for doubtful accounts:
Year Ended December 31, 2010	$	740,000	$	(48,000	)	$	(36,000	)	$	656,000
Year Ended December 31, 2011	$	656,000	$	(160,000	)	$	(109,000	)	$	387,000
Year Ended December 31, 2012	$	387,000	$	23,000		$	(99,000	)	$	311,000
Description	Balance at Beginning of Period		Adjustments			Write Off of Scrapped Inventory			Balance at End of Period
Allowance for obsolete or slow-moving inventory:
Year Ended December 31, 2010	$	1,796,000	$	470,000		$	(257,000	)	$	2,009,000
Year Ended December 31, 2011	$	2,009,000	$	179,000		$	(787,000	)	$	1,401,000
Year Ended December 31, 2012	$	1,401,000	$	224,000		$	(186,000	)	$	1,439,000
Description	Balance at Beginning of Period		Additions			Deductions(1)			Balance at End of Period
Valuation allowance for deferred tax assets:
Year Ended December 31, 2010	$	1,161,000	$	37,000		$	—		$	1,198,000
Year Ended December 31, 2011	$	1,198,000	$	15,000		$	—		$	1,213,000
Year Ended December 31, 2012	$	1,213,000	$	163,000		$	—		$	1,376,000

(1) Net operating loss carryforwards used or expired.

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES

None.

ITEM 9A(T). CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating our disclosure controls and procedures, our management recognized that any system of controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, as ours are designed to do, and management necessarily was required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.

As required by SEC rules, an evaluation was performed under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the effectiveness, as of December 31, 2012, of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act). Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2012, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting in the quarter ended December 31, 2012 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Management of The Coast Distribution System, Inc. is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Our internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Internal control over financial reporting includes those written policies and procedures that:

• pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets;

• provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America;

• provide reasonable assurance that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorization of our management and board of directors; and

• provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of assets that could have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.

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Internal control over financial reporting includes the controls themselves, monitoring and internal auditing practices and actions taken to correct deficiencies as identified. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of the effectiveness of such controls to future periods are subject to the risks that the controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or because the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Management’s Assessment of Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Our management assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2012, based on criteria for effective internal control over financial reporting described in “Internal Control – Integrated Framework” issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Management’s assessment included an evaluation of the design and the testing of the operational effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Management reviewed the results of its assessment with the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors.

Based on that assessment, management determined that, as of December 31, 2012, The Coast Distribution System, Inc. maintained effective internal control over financial reporting.

The foregoing report on internal control over financial reporting shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section.

Section 989G of the Dodd-Frank Act, signed into law in July 2010, permanently exempts smaller reporting companies, such as the Company, and other non-accelerated filers from Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requiring SEC reporting companies to obtain and include in their annual reports on Form 10-K, an attestation report from their independent registered accountants with respect to the effectiveness of their internal control over financial reporting. As a result, no such attestation report is included in this Annual Report.

ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION

As discussed above in Item 7 of this report, entitled “MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION,” under the subcaption “Financial Condition, Liquidity and Capital Resources,” the Company finances a substantial portion of its working capital requirements with borrowings under a long-term revolving bank line of credit, which is governed by that certain Third Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement, as amended (the “Credit Line Agreement”) entered into by the Company with Bank of America N. A., as lender (the “Bank”).

The Credit Line Agreement contains a single financial covenant which requires the Company to achieve a fixed charge coverage ratio of at least 1.10–to-1.0 for successive rolling 12 month periods ending on the last day of each fiscal quarter. The first of those rolling 12-month periods to which the covenant was to have been applicable was the 12 month period ended December 31, 2012.

On March 25, 2013 the Company and the Bank entered into the 14th Amendment to the Credit Line Agreement (the “14th Amendment”), which provides, instead, that the first of those rolling 12-month periods to which that financial covenant will apply will be the 12 month period ending March 31, 2013.

The foregoing summary of the 14th Amendment is not intended to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to that Amendment, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 10.54 to, and by this reference is incorporated into, this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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PART III

ITEM 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Except for information concerning the Company’s executive officers which is included in Part I of this Report, the information required by Item 10 is incorporated by reference from our definitive proxy statement expected to be filed with the Commission on or before April 30, 2013 for the Company’s 2013 Annual Stockholders’ Meeting.

ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The information required by Item 11 is incorporated herein by reference from our definitive proxy statement expected to be filed with the Commission on or before April 30, 2013 for the Company’s 2013 Annual Stockholders’ Meeting.

ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

Except for the information below regarding our equity compensation plans, the information required by Item 12 is incorporated herein by reference from our definitive proxy statement expected to be filed with the Commission on or before April 30, 2013 for the Company’s 2013 Annual Stockholders’ Meeting.

The following table provides information relating to our equity compensation plans as of December 31, 2012:

	Column A		Column B		Column C
	Number of Securities to be Issued on Exercise of Outstanding Options		Weighted Average Exercise Price of Outstanding Options		Number of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans (Excluding Securities Reflected in Column A
Equity compensation plans approved by stockholders Stock option and incentive plans		433,000	$	3.60		323,833
Equity compensation plans not approved by stockholders		—		—		—
		433,000	$	3.60		323,833

ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

The information required by Item 13 is incorporated herein by reference from our definitive proxy statement expected to be filed with the Commission on or before on or before April 30, 2013 for the Company’s 2012 Annual Stockholders’ Meeting.

ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

The information required by Item 14 is incorporated herein by reference from our definitive proxy statement to be filed with the Commission on or before April 30, 2013 for the Company’s 2013 Annual Stockholders’ Meeting.

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PART IV

ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS SCHEDULES

(a) The following documents are filed as part of this Report:

(1) Financial Statements. The Consolidated Financial Statements of The Coast Distribution System, Inc. and Financial Statement Schedules: See Index to Financial Statements on Page 28 of this Report.

(2) Financial Statement Schedules. Schedule II — Valuation and Qualifying Accounts is set forth at Page 47 of this Report. All other schedules are omitted as the information is not required, is not material or is otherwise furnished.

(3) Exhibits. See Index to Exhibits, elsewhere in this Report, for a list and description of (i) exhibits previously filed by the Company with the Commission and (ii) the exhibits being filed with this Report.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

	THE COAST DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INC.
Dated: March 29, 2013	By:	/S/ JAMES MUSBACH
		James Musbach
		President and Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below hereby appoints James Musbach, Thomas R. McGuire and Sandra A. Knell, and each of them individually, to act severally as his or her attorneys-in-fact and agent, with full power and authority, including the power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign and file on his or her behalf and in each capacity stated below, all amendments and/or supplements to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which amendments or supplements may make changes and additions to this Report as such attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may deem necessary or appropriate.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this Report on Form 10-K has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature	Title	Date
/S/ JAMES MUSBACH James Musbach	President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)	March 29, 2013
/S/ THOMAS R. MCGUIRE Thomas R. McGuire	Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Directors	March 29, 2013
/S/ SANDRA A. KNELL Sandra A. Knell	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Principal Accounting Officer)	March 29, 2013
/S/ JOHN W. CASEY John W. Casey	Director	March 29, 2013
/S/ LEONARD P. DANNA Leonard P. Danna	Director	March 29, 2013
/S/ BEN A. FRYDMAN Ben A. Frydman	Director	March 29, 2013
/S/ ROBERT S. THROOP Robert S. Throop	Director	March 29, 2013

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit Number	Description of Exhibits
3.1A	Certificate of Incorporation of the Company as filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on July 1, 1997 and as in effect since that date (incorporated by reference to Exhibit B to the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement dated and filed with the SEC on July 3, 1997).
3.3	Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company effective as of December 19, 2007 (Incorporated by reference to the Exhibit 3.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 19, 2007).
4.1	Rights Agreement, dated as of February 3, 2006, between the Company and U.S. Stock Transfer Corporation, which includes, as Exhibit A, a form of Certificate of Designation for the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock; as Exhibit B, the Form of Rights Certificate and. As Exhibit C, a Summary of Rights. (Incorporated by reference from the same numbered Exhibit to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on February 6, 2006).
10.31	1993 Stock Option and Incentive Plan. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 33-64582) filed with the SEC on June 17, 1993).
10.34	Distribution Agreement dated October 11, 1995 between the Company and Recreation Vehicle Products, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended September 30, 1995).
10.36	1999 Stock Incentive Plan (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.36 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000).
10.39	Third Amended and Restated Loan & Security Agreement dated as of August 30, 2005 (the “Bank Credit Line Agreement”) between Coast and certain of its Subsidiaries and Standard Federal Bank NA, LaSalle Business Credit, LLC, and LaSalle Business Credit, a Division of ABN AMRO BANK N.V., Canada Branch. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 30, 2005 and filed with the SEC on September 6, 2005).
10.40	2005 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-136864 filed with the Commission on August 24, 2006).
10.44	The 2008 Equity Incentive Plan approved by the Company’s stockholders (incorporated by reference to Appendix A to the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement filed with the SEC on July 22, 2008).
10.45	Fourth Amendment and Waiver, dated as of March 27, 2008, entered into by the Company and Bank of America, N. A., amending certain of the terms and provisions of the Bank Credit Line Agreement. (Incorporated by reference to the same numbered Exhibit to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, filed with the Commission on March 31, 2009.)
10.46	Fifth Amendment to Bank Credit Line Agreement entered into November 30, 2009 by The Coast Distribution System, Inc. and Bank of America, N. A. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.46 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 30, 2009.)
10.47	Seventh Amendment to Bank Credit Line Agreement entered into as November 8, 2010 by the Company and Bank of America, N. A. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.99 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2010.)
10.48	Eighth Amendment to Bank Credit Line Agreement entered into as of May 10, 2011 by the Company and Bank of America, N.A. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.48 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2011.)
10.49	Ninth Amendment to Bank Credit Line Agreement entered into as of July 27, 2011 by the Company and Bank of America, N.A. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 27, 2011.)

E-1

Exhibit Number	Description of Exhibits
10.50	Tenth Amendment to Bank Credit Line Agreement entered into as of November 8, 2011 between the Company and Bank of America, N.A. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2011.)
10.51	Eleventh Amendment to Bank Credit Line Agreement entered into May 1, 2012 between the Company and Bank of America, N.A. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on May 4, 2012.)
10.52	Twelfth Amendment to Bank Credit Line Agreement entered into July 30, 2012 between the Company and Bank of America, N.A. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on August 2, 2012.)
10.53	Thirteenth Amendment to Bank Credit Line Agreement entered into November 9, 2012 between the Company and Bank of America, N.A. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.99 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2012.)
10.54	Fourteenth Amendment to Bank Credit Line Agreement entered into March 25, 2013 between the Company and Bank of America, N.A.
21	Subsidiaries of Registrant
23.1	Consent of Burr Pilger Mayer, Inc., Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
24	Power of Attorney — Included on Signature Page.
31.1	Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.2	Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.1	Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.2	Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
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* Attached as Exhibit 101 to this report are documents formatted in XBRL (Extensible Business reporting Language). Pursuant to applicable securities laws and regulations, we are deemed to have complied with the reporting obligation relating to the submission of interactive data files in such exhibits and are not subject to liability under any anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws as long as we have made a good faith attempt to comply with the submission requirements and promptly amend the interactive data files after becoming aware that the interactive data files fail to comply with the submission requirements. Users of this data are advised that, pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, these interactive data files are deemed not filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are deemed not filed or part of any registration statement or prospectus for purposes of Sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and are otherwise not subject to liability under these sections.

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EX-10.54

Exhibit 10.54

March 25, 2013

The Coast Distribution System, Inc.

350 Woodview Avenue

Morgan Hill, California 95037

Re: Fourteenth Amendment

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The Coast Distribution System, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Coast Delaware”), United Sales & Warehouse of Texas, Inc., a Texas corporation (“United Sales”), C/P Products Corp., an Indiana corporation (“C/P”), Mohawk Trailer Supply, Inc., a New York corporation (“Mohawk”), and Les Systemes De Distribution Coast (Canada) Inc. The Coast Distribution System (Canada) Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the Province of Quebec (“Coast Canada”) (Coast Delaware, United Sales, C/P, Mohawk, and Coast Canada are referred to individually as “Borrower” and collectively as “Borrowers”), and Bank of America, N.A. (in its individual capacity, “US Lender”), acting by and through Bank of America, N.A., a national banking association, as agent for US Lender (in such capacity, “Agent”) and Bank of America, N.A. (acting through its Canada branch) (“Canadian Lender”), (US Lender, acting through Agent, and Canadian Lender are referred to collectively as “Lender”), have entered into that certain Third Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement dated August 30, 2005 (the “Security Agreement”). From time to time thereafter, Borrowers and Lender may have executed various amendments (each an “Amendment” and collectively the “Amendments”) to the Security Agreement (the Security Agreement and the Amendments hereinafter are referred to, collectively, as the “Agreement”). Borrowers and Lender now desire to further amend the Agreement as provided herein, subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing recitals, the mutual covenants and agreements set forth herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

1. The Agreement hereby is amended as follows:

(a) Subsection 4(c)(v) is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

(c)(v) Amendment Fee. Borrowers shall pay to Lender a one-time fee of Ten Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($10,000.00), which shall be fully earned and payable on the date hereof.

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(b) Subsection 14(a) of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

(a) Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.

Borrowers shall not permit their Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for each period set forth below to be less than the ratio set forth below for the corresponding period set forth below (it being understood that the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is not being measured for the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2012):

Period	Ratio
For the 12 month period ending on March 31, 2013 and for each twelve (12) month period ending on the last day of each fiscal quarter thereafter	1.10:1.0

2. Borrowers represent and warrant to Lender that this Amendment has been approved by all necessary corporate action, and each individual signing below represents and warrants that he or she is fully authorized to do so.

3. Except as expressly amended hereby and by any other supplemental documents or instruments executed by either party hereto in order to effectuate the transactions contemplated by this Amendment, the Agreement and all Exhibits thereto are ratified and confirmed by Borrowers and Lender and remain in full force and effect in accordance with their terms.

4. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but all of which, taken together, shall constitute one and the same agreement. This Amendment may be delivered by facsimile, and when so delivered will have the same force and effect as delivery of an original signature.

5. Borrowers shall reimburse Lender for all reasonable attorney’s fees (whether for internal or outside counsel) incurred by Lender in connection with the documentation and consummation of this Fourteenth Amendment to the Agreement.

(Remainder of page intentionally blank; signatures follow)

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the date first set forth above.

LENDER:
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Agent
By:	/s/ JOHN W. MUNDSTOCK
Title:	Senior Vice President
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as US Lender
By:	/s/ JOHN W. MUNDSTOCK
Title:	Senior Vice President
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., acting through its Canada branch, as Canadian Lender
By:	/s/ MEDINA SALES De ANDRADE
Title:	Vice President

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BORROWERS:
THE COAST DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INC.
By:	/s/ SANDRA A. KNELL
Title:	Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
UNITED SALES & WAREHOUSE OF TEXAS, INC.
By:	/s/ SANDRA A. KNELL
Title:	Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
C/P PRODUCTS, CORP.
By:	/s/ SANDRA A. KNELL
Title:	Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
MOHAWK TRAILER SUPPLY, INC.
By:	/s/ SANDRA A. KNELL
Title:	Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
LES SYSTEMES DE DISTRIBUTION COAST (CANADA) INC. THE COAST DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (CANADA) INC.
By:	/s/ SANDRA A. KNELL
Title:	Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

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GUARANTOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The undersigned guarantor acknowledges that Bank of America, N.A., (in its individual capacity, “US Lender”), acting by and through Bank of America, N.A., as agent for US Lender (in such capacity, “Agent”) and Bank of America, N.A. (acting through its Canada branch), (“Canadian Lender”) (US Lender, acting through Agent, and Canadian Lender are referred to collectively as “Lender”) have no obligation to provide it with notice of, or to obtain its consent to, the terms of the foregoing Thirteenth Amendment (the “Thirteenth Amendment”) to the Third Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement dated August 30, 2005, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time. The undersigned guarantor nevertheless: (i) acknowledges and agrees to the terms and conditions of the Thirteenth Amendment; and (ii) acknowledges that its guaranty remains fully valid, binding, and enforceable.

9002-1288 QUEBEC INC.
By:	/s/ SANDRA A. KNELL
Title:	Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

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EX-21

EXHIBIT 21

SUBSIDIARIES OF REGISTRANT

Name and State or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation	Registrant’s Percentage Ownership
U. S. Subsidiaries
C/P Products Corp, an Indiana corporation		100	%
United Sales and Warehouse of Texas, Inc., a Texas corporation		100	%
Foreign Subsidiaries:
The Coast Distribution System (Canada) Inc., Quebec, Canada		100	%
Ai-wek a.k.a Eurasia Recreational Vehicle Accessories Taiwan Company		100	%

In accordance with the instructions set forth in Paragraph (b) of Item 601 of Regulation S-K, there have been omitted one U.S. subsidiary and four foreign subsidiaries that, if considered in the aggregate as a single subsidiary, would not have constituted a significant subsidiary as of December 31, 2012.

EX-23.1

EXHIBIT 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We have issued our report dated March 29, 2013, accompanying the consolidated financial statements and schedule of The Coast Distribution System, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the Company) for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010. We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference of that report in the Company’s Registration Statements on Forms S-8 (File Nos. 33-10769, 33-15322, 33-18696, 33-64582, 333-55933, 333-55941, 333-52876, 333-136864, 333-166088 and 333-185021).

/s/ Burr Pilger Mayer, Inc.

E. Palo Alto, California

March 29, 2013

EX-31.1

EXHIBIT 31.1

CERTIFICATIONS OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

UNDER

SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT

I, James Musbach, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of The Coast Distribution System, Inc. for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Dated: March 29, 2013

/S/ JAMES MUSBACH

James Musbach

President and Chief Executive Officer

EX-31.2

EXHIBIT 31.2

CERTIFICATIONS OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

UNDER

SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT

I, Sandra A. Knell, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of The Coast Distribution System, Inc. for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Dated: March 29, 2013

/S/ SANDRA A. KNELL

Sandra A. Knell

Executive Vice President

and Chief Financial Officer

EX-32.1

EXHIBIT 32.1

CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

THE COAST DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INC.

Annual Report on Form 10-K

for the Year ended December 31, 2012

In connection with the accompanying Annual Report on Form 10-K of The Coast Distribution System, Inc. (the “Company”), for the year ended December 31, 2012, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as of the date hereof (the “Annual Report”), I, James Musbach, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, hereby certify pursuant to 18 U.S.C.§ 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1) The Annual Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

(2) The information contained in the Annual Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Date: March 29, 2013	/s/ JAMES MUSBACH
	James Musbach
	Chief Executive Officer
	A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to The Coast Distribution System Inc. and will be retained by The Coast Distribution System Inc. and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.

EX-32.2

EXHIBIT 32.2

CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

THE COAST DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INC.

Annual Report on Form 10-K

for the Year ended December 31, 2012

In connection with the accompanying Annual Report on Form 10-K of The Coast Distribution System, Inc. (the “Company”), for the year ended December 31, 2012, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as of the date hereof (the “Annual Report”), I, Sandra A. Knell, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, hereby certify pursuant to 18 U.S.C.§ 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1) The Annual Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

(2) The information contained in the Annual Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Date: March 29, 2013	/s/ SANDRA A. KNELL
	Sandra A. Knell
	Chief Financial Officer
	A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to The Coast Distribution System Inc. and will be retained by The Coast Distribution System Inc. and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.

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Line of Credit
Debt [Line Items]
Secured notes payable to bank under line of credit due July 10, 2014	$ 10,933	$ 10,895

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Components of Deferred Tax Assets (liabilities) (Parenthetical) (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Components Of Deferred Tax Assets And Liabilities [Line Items]
Deferred tax assets, net, current	$ 1,849,000	$ 1,787,000
Deferred tax assets, net, non current	1,285,000	1,127,000
Increase in deferred tax assets valuation allowance	$ 163,000	$ 15,000	$ 37,000

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Summary of Restricted Share Activity (Detail) (Restricted Stock, USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Restricted Stock
Shares
Beginning Balance	232,501	177,000
Granted	147,500	114,500
Vested	(58,500)	(58,999)
Forfeited	(9,000)
Ending Balance	312,501	232,501
Weighted Average Grant-Date Fair Value
Beginning Balance	$ 4.31	$ 4.15
Granted	$ 2.28	$ 4.47
Vested	$ 4.15	$ 4.15
Forfeited	$ 3.89
Ending Balance	$ 3.39	$ 4.31

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Reconciliation between Actual Tax Expense and Expected Tax Expense (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Income Tax Rate Reconciliation [Line Items]
Earnings (loss) before income taxes	$ (2,595)	$ (1,141)	$ 569
Expected income tax expense at 34%	(882)	(388)	193
Difference in rates on earnings of foreign operations	83	80	6
Stock based compensation and other nondeductible expenses	27	43	96
State taxes and credits (net of federal benefit)	50	40	80
Change in valuation allowance		7	36
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries	(19)	(1)
Exclusion of earnings of foreign affiliates	(54)	(12)	(6)
Foreign dividend	192
Other	22	(24)	12
Income tax provision (benefit)	$ (581)	$ (255)	$ 417

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Summary of Share Based Compensation Option Unvested (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Shares - Unvested
Granted	8,000	8,000
Forfeited	117,667	107,000
Unvested Stock Options
Shares - Unvested
Beginning Balance	69,200	190,100
Granted	8,000	8,000
Vested	(69,200)	(128,900)
Forfeited
Ending Balance	8,000	69,200
Weighted Average Grant-Date Fair Value
Beginning Balance	0.73	1.11
Granted	1.28	1.97
Vested	0.73	1.37
Forfeited
Ending Balance	1.28	0.73

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Quarterly Financial Data (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Quarterly Financial Data Table

	Quarter Ended
	March 31, 2012			June 30, 2012		September 30, 2012		December 31, 2012
	(Unaudited)
Net sales	$	24,248		$	34,115	$	34,484	$	20,674
Gross profit		3,409			5,609		5,688		2,596
Net earnings (loss)		(1,345	)		504		307		(1,480	)
Net earnings (loss) per share – diluted		(0.30	)		0.11		0.07		(0.32	)
	Quarter Ended
	March 31, 2011			June 30, 2011		September 30, 2011		December 31, 2011
	(Unaudited)
Net sales	$	24,697		$	33,218	$	31,586	$	18,694
Gross profit		3,898			6,302		5,706		2,123
Net earnings (loss)		(1,039	)		980		612		(1,439	)
Net earnings (loss) per share – diluted		(0.23	)		0.21		0.13		(0.32	)

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Income Taxes - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Income Tax And Carryforwards [Line Items]
Gross unrecognized tax benefits	$ 263,000	$ 260,000	$ 260,000
Unrecognized tax benefit, impact on effective tax rate	3,000
Interest and penalties	131,000
Federal
Income Tax And Carryforwards [Line Items]
Operating loss carryforwards	2,033,000
State
Income Tax And Carryforwards [Line Items]
Operating loss carryforwards	4,532,000
Tax credit carryforwards	1,245,000
Foreign
Income Tax And Carryforwards [Line Items]
Tax credit carryforwards	$ 328,000

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Long-Term Obligations (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Long Term Obligations

Long-term obligations consist of the following at December 31:

	2012		2011
	(In thousands)
Secured notes payable to bank under line of credit due July 10, 2014	$	10,933	$	10,895

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Foreign Operations - Additional Information (Detail) (MEXICO, USD $)	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
MEXICO
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Segment reporting equity method investments information	$ 935,000	$ 710,000

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Commitments and Contingencies - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Schedule of Operating Leases [Line Items]
Rent expenses	$ 3,938,000	$ 4,170,000	$ 4,511,000

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Property Plant and Equipment (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property Plant and Equipment Gross	$ 12,363	$ 12,596
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization	(11,175)	(11,283)
Property Plant and Equipment Net	1,188	1,313
Warehouse Equipment
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property Plant and Equipment Gross	5,441	5,546
Office Equipment
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property Plant and Equipment Gross	5,241	5,285
Leasehold Improvements
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property Plant and Equipment Gross	1,566	1,635
Automobiles
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property Plant and Equipment Gross	$ 115	$ 130

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Provision (Benefit) for Income Taxes (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Current
Federal
State	61	67	86
Foreign	(409)	(166)	273
Current Income Tax Expense (Benefit), Total	(348)	(99)	359
Deferred
Federal	(171)	(178)	(30)
State			13
Foreign	(62)	22	75
Deferred income taxes	(220)	(166)	51
Income tax provision (benefit)	$ (581)	$ (255)	$ 417

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Component of Accrued Warranty Expenses (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Warranty Liability [Line Items]
Accrued warranty beginning balance	$ 564	$ 469
Warranty costs incurred	(1,214)	(878)
Provision for warranty claims	1,340	973
Accrued warranty ending balance	$ 690	$ 564

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Stock Options Outstanding Under Equity Incentive Plans (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Outstanding Options	433,000	546,001	652,001
Weighted Average Exercise Price	$ 3.60	$ 4.54	$ 5.01
Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)	2 years 4 months 24 days	2 years 9 months 18 days
Options Exercisable	425,000	476,801
Weighted Average Exercise Price	$ 3.64	$ 5.01
Previously Approved Plans | $0.63 - $4.50
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Range of exercise prices, lower limit	$ 0.63
Range of exercise prices, upper limit	$ 4.50
Outstanding Options	236,000
Weighted Average Exercise Price	$ 1.66
Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)	2 years 10 months 24 days
Options Exercisable	228,000
Weighted Average Exercise Price	$ 1.65
Previously Approved Plans | $4.75 - $9.80
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Range of exercise prices, lower limit	$ 4.75
Range of exercise prices, upper limit	$ 9.80
Outstanding Options	197,000
Weighted Average Exercise Price	$ 5.94
Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)	1 year 10 months 24 days
Options Exercisable	197,000
Weighted Average Exercise Price	$ 5.94
Previously Approved Plans | $0.63 - $9.80
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Range of exercise prices, lower limit	$ 0.63
Range of exercise prices, upper limit	$ 9.80
Outstanding Options	433,000
Weighted Average Exercise Price	$ 3.60
Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)	2 years 4 months 24 days
Options Exercisable	425,000
Weighted Average Exercise Price	$ 3.64

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Property, Plant and Equipment

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Property, Plant and Equipment

NOTE B: PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

Property, plant and equipment, net consist of the following at December 31:

	2012			2011
	(In thousands)
Warehouse equipment	$	5,441		$	5,546
Office equipment		5,241			5,285
Leasehold improvements		1,566			1,635
Automobiles		115			130
		12,363			12,596
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization		(11,175	)		(11,283	)
	$	1,188		$	1,313

Depreciation and amortization expense totaled $711,000, $818,000 and $753,000 in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

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Significant Concentrations - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Airxcel, Inc.
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Percentage of Purchases from Major Suppliers	22.00%	20.00%	18.00%
Zhejiang
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Percentage of Purchases from Major Suppliers	6.00%	6.00%
Zhejiang | Maximum
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Percentage of Purchases from Major Suppliers			5.00%

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Stock Incentive Plans - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended			12 Months Ended	1 Months Ended		12 Months Ended		1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010	Dec. 31, 2012 Restricted Stock	Aug. 31, 2012 2012 Plan	Dec. 31, 2012 2012 Plan	Dec. 31, 2012 2012 Plan Restricted Stock	Dec. 31, 2011 2012 Plan Restricted Stock	Aug. 31, 2012 Previously Approved Plans	Dec. 31, 2012 Previously Approved Plans	Dec. 31, 2011 Previously Approved Plans
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares initially authorized for issuance under equity incentive plan					300,000
Additional shares authorized for issuance under equity incentive plan					17,666
Shares ceased to be issuable									17,666
Outstanding options to purchase shares of common stock	433,000	546,001	652,001
Unvested restricted shares outstanding				312,501
Outstanding shares remained available for future grants						323,833
Aggregate pre-tax intrinsic value	$ 3,000	$ 21,000
Weighted average fair value of options granted	$ 1.28	$ 1.97
Unrecognized compensation cost related to the nonvested service-conditioned restricted shares										3,000	8,550
Expected to be recognized over a weighted average period				1 year 7 months 6 days						2 months 12 days	6 months
Common stock to be Awarded							147,500	114,500
Unrecognized stock-based compensation cost attributable to these restricted shares				578,000
Aggregate intrinsic value	$ 157,000	$ 202,800		$ 625,000

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Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Pretax Income (Loss)

Pretax income (loss) for the years ending December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was taxed in the following jurisdictions:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Domestic	$	(807	)	$	(500	)	$	(383	)
Foreign		(1,788	)		(641	)		952
	$	(2,595	)	$	(1,141	)	$	569

Provision (Benefit) for Income Taxes

The provision (benefit) for income taxes in each of 2012, 2011 and 2010 is summarized below:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Current
Federal	$	—		$	—		$	—
State		61			67			86
Foreign		(409	)		(166	)		273
		(348	)		(99	)		359
Deferred
Federal		(171	)		(178	)		(30	)
State		—			—			13
Foreign		(62	)		22			75
		(233	)		(156	)		58
	$	(581	)	$	(255	)	$	417

Components of Deferred Tax Assets (Liabilities)

Deferredtax assets (liabilities) were comprised of the following at December 31:

	2012			2011
	(In thousands)
Deferred tax assets
Inventory	$	1,187		$	1,185
Bad debt provision		49			85
Property, plant and equipment		109			59
Deferred credits		1,281			1,281
Loss carryforwards		1,054			1,035
Rent		162			150
Other		817			431
Gross deferred tax assets		4,659			4,226
Less valuation allowance(2)		(1,376	)		(1,213	)
		3,283			3,013
Deferred tax liabilities
Property, plant and equipment		(61	)		(22	)
Unremitted earnings of foreign affiliates		(58	)		(77	)
Other		(30	)		—
Gross deferred tax liabilities		(149	)		(99	)
Net deferred tax assets(1)	$	3,134		$	2,914

(1) Of the total deferred tax assets at December 31, 2012 and 2011, $1,849,000 and $1,787,000 were included in current assets and $1,285,000 and $1,127,000 in 2012 and 2011 were included in other long-term assets at December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

(2) The deferred tax valuation allowance increased by $163,000 during 2012, $15,000 during 2011 and $37,000 during 2010.

Reconciliation between Actual Tax Expense and Expected Tax Expense

Set forth below is a reconciliation between actual tax expense and expected tax expense for the respective periods presented below:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Earnings (loss) before income taxes	$	(2,595	)	$	(1,141	)	$	569
Expected income tax expense at 34%	$	(882	)	$	(388	)	$	193
Difference in rates on earnings of foreign operations		83			80			6
Stock based compensation and other nondeductible expenses		27			43			96
State taxes and credits (net of federal benefit)		50			40			80
Change in valuation allowance		—			7			36
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries		(19	)		(1	)		—
Exclusion of earnings of foreign affiliates		(54	)		(12	)		(6	)
Foreign dividend		192			—			—
Other		22			(24	)		12
Income tax provision (benefit)	$	(581	)	$	(255	)	$	417

Reconciliation of Beginning and Ending Amounts of Unrecognized Tax Benefits

A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amounts of unrecognized tax benefits is as follows:

Unrecognized Tax Benefits (in thousands):	2012		2011
Balance as of January 1,	$	260	$	260
Additions for tax positions related to the current year		3		29
Reductions for tax positions of prior years		—		(29	)
Balance as of December 31,	$	263	$	260

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Foreign Operations (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Summary of Operations by Geographic Area

A summary of the Company’s operations by geographic area is presented below for the years ended December 31:

	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Net sales to external customers
United States	$	85,374		$	81,856		$	80,890
Canada		28,147			26,339			27,710
Other		—			—			—
Operating income (loss)
United States	$	(459	)	$	7		$	206
Canada		(1,607	)		(582	)		769
Other		(67	)		31			310
Identifiable assets
United States	$	38,341		$	35,317		$	34,175
Canada		11,009			11,630			12,742
Other		309			789			865

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Reconciliation between Actual Tax Expense and Expected Tax Expense (Parenthetical) (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012
Income Tax Rate Reconciliation [Line Items]
Expected income tax expense, Percent	34.00%

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Assumption of Estimated Fair Value of Options (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Schedule of Weighted Average Assumptions for Fair Values of Stock Options[Line Items]
Expected volatility	59.00%	72.00%	71.00%
Risk free interest rate	1.64%	2.15%	2.79%
Expected dividend yields
Expected lives	10 years	10 years	10 years

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Earnings (Loss) per Share (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Computation of Basic and Diluted Earning per Common Share

Set forth below are the computations of basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share for each of the following periods:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Numerator:
Net earnings (loss)	$	(2,014	)	$	(886	)	$	152
Denominator:
Weighted average shares outstanding		4,597			4,535			4,475
Dilutive effect of stock options and restricted shares		—			—			99
Denominator for diluted earnings (loss) per share		4,597			4,535			4,574

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Accrued Liabilities (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Components of Accrued Liabilities

Accrued liabilities consisted of the following at December 31:

	2012		2011
	(In thousands)
Payroll and related benefits	$	703	$	662
Rent		465		429
Income and other taxes		404		413
Other		1,946		1,719
	$	3,518	$	3,223

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

NOTE A: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

A summary of the significant accounting policies consistently applied in the preparation of the accompanying consolidated financial statements follows:

1. Principles of Consolidation. The Company consolidates the accounts of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, The Coast Distribution System (Canada) Inc. (“Coast Canada”) and Eur-Asia Recreational Vehicle Accessories Taiwan Company (“Coast Taiwan”). Investments in unconsolidated affiliates are accounted for by the equity method. All material intercompany transactions have been eliminated.

2. Inventories. All of our inventory consists of finished goods, which are comprised of replacement parts, supplies and accessories held for resale. Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (determined on a first-in, first-out basis) or net realizable value. We regularly assess the appropriateness of the inventory valuations with particular attention to obsolete, slow-moving and non-saleable inventory. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, our reserves for excess and obsolete inventory were $1,439,000 and $1,401,000, respectively.

3. Property, Plant and Equipment. Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization are provided for in amounts sufficient to relate the cost of depreciable assets to operations over their estimated service lives, principally on a straight-line basis. The estimated lives used in determining depreciation and amortization are:

Buildings and improvements	12 – 40 years
Warehouse and office equipment	5 – 7 years
Automobiles	3 – 5 years

Leasehold improvements are amortized over the lives of the respective leases or the service lives of the improvements, whichever is shorter. Currently the amortization periods range from 5 to 15 years.

4. Revenue Recognition. Revenue from sales of products is recognized upon shipment. Shipping and handling costs that are billed to our customers are included in revenue. We provide our customers with a limited right of return. We establish an allowance for potential returns which reduces the amounts of our reported sales. We estimate the allowance based on historical experience with returns of like products and current economic data, which can affect the level at which customers submit product returns.

5. Segment Reporting. We have one operating segment, which is the distribution of recreational vehicle and boating replacement parts, supplies and accessories. We distribute our recreational vehicle and boating products from 17 distribution centers located throughout the United States and Canada. No single customer accounted for 10% or more of our net sales in 2012, 2011 or 2010.

6. Long-Lived Assets. Long-lived assets are reviewed for possible impairment at least annually or, more frequently, if and when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of any of those assets may not be recoverable in full, by comparing the fair value of the long-lived asset to its carrying amount.

7. Foreign Currency Translation. Exchange adjustments resulting from foreign currency transactions are generally recognized in net earnings; whereas adjustments resulting from the translation of financial statements are reflected as a separate component of stockholders’ equity. The functional currency of our Canadian subsidiary is the Canadian dollar.

8. Derivative Financial Instruments. We sometimes use derivatives to partially offset our exposure to fluctuations in certain foreign currencies. We do not enter into derivatives for speculative or trading purposes. Derivatives are recorded at fair value on the balance sheet and gains or losses resulting from changes in fair value of a derivative are recorded based on the derivative’s hedge designation.

9. Cash and Cash Equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents include highly liquid instruments with maturities of three months or less and overnight investments funded with cash from sweep accounts maintained by the Company at one or more banks.

10. Income Taxes. We provide a deferred tax expense or benefit equal to the net change in the deferred tax liability or asset during the year. Deferred income taxes represent tax deductions and tax loss carryforwards and future net tax effects resulting from temporary differences between the book and tax bases of assets and liabilities, using enacted tax rates. A valuation allowance is established against deferred tax assets if and to the extent we determine that it is more likely, than not, that the deferred tax assets will not be realized in full.

11. Use of Estimates. In preparing financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), we are required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

12. Earnings (Loss) per Share. Basic earnings (loss) per share for any period are computed using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during that period. Unvested restricted shares are excluded from outstanding shares for purposes of this calculation. Diluted earnings (loss) per share are computed using the weighted average number of common and potentially dilutive securities outstanding during the period. Potentially dilutive securities consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon exercise of stock options and vested restricted shares (using the treasury stock method). Potentially dilutive securities are excluded from the computation if their effect is anti-dilutive.

Options to purchase 433,000, 546,001 and 422,000 shares in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively, were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings (loss) per share because the respective exercise prices per share of those options were greater than the average market price of our shares of common stock during the year, or because by including the unvested compensation expense associated with the options, the calculation of common stock equivalents under the treasury method would be anti-dilutive. In addition, 312,501, 232,501 and 177,000 restricted shares were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings (loss) per share in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively, because their inclusion in that computation would have been anti-dilutive.

13. Fair Value Measurement of Financial Assets and Liabilities. We apply fair value accounting for all financial assets and liabilities and non-financial assets and liabilities that are recognized or disclosed at fair value in the financial statements on a recurring basis. We define fair value as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities that are required to be recorded at fair value, we consider the principal or most advantageous market in which we would transact and the market-based risk measurements or assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, such as inherent risk, transfer restrictions and credit risk.

GAAP establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring the fair values of financial and non-financial assets and liabilities. These tiers consist of:

Level 1: Quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities

Level 2: Observable market based inputs or unobservable inputs that are corroborated by market data

Level 3: Unobservable inputs that are not corroborated by market data

The following tables summarize the fair value measurements (in thousands of dollars) of our financial assets and liabilities:

	At December 31, 2012
	Total		Quoted market prices in active markets (level 1)		Significant other observable Inputs (level 2)
Cash equivalents – Overnight Investments	$	1,283	$	—	$	1,283

	At December 31, 2011
	Total		Quoted market prices in active markets (level 1)		Significant other observable Inputs (level 2)
Cash equivalents – Overnight Investments	$	3,190	$	—	$	3,190

The Company had no level 3 assets or liabilities at December 31, 2012 and 2011.

We use the income approach to value derivatives, using observable Level 2 market expectations at the measurement date and standard valuation techniques to convert future amounts to a single discounted present amount, assuming that participants are motivated but not compelled to transact. Level 2 inputs are limited to quoted prices that are observable for the asset and liabilities, which include interest rate and credit risk. We have used mid-market pricing as a practical expedient for fair value measurements.

14. Accounts Receivable and the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. The majority of our accounts receivable are due from RV dealers, supply stores and service centers. Credit is extended to a customer based on evaluation of its financial condition and, generally, collateral is not required. We maintain allowances for doubtful accounts for estimated losses that would result from the inability of customers to make required payments on their accounts. We regularly evaluate the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts. We estimate potential losses on our accounts receivable on the basis of the aging of accounts receivable balances, a review of significant past due accounts, and our historical write-off experience, net of recoveries. If the financial condition of our customers were to deteriorate, whether due to deteriorating economic conditions generally or otherwise, adversely affecting their ability to make payments, we would make additional provisions to increase the allowance for doubtful accounts.

15. Stock-Based Compensation. We account for stock-based compensation in accordance with ASC 718, Stock Compensation, which requires the recognition of the fair value of compensation paid in stock or other equity instruments as an expense in the calculation of net earnings (loss). Accordingly, we recognize stock-based compensation expense in the period in which the employee to whom stock-based compensation is awarded is required to provide service, which is generally over the vesting period of the individual equity instruments. Stock options granted in lieu of cash to non-employees for services performed are recorded at the fair value of the options at the time they are granted and are expensed as service is provided by the optionee. We record stock-based compensation expense for restricted share awards based on the fair market value of the shares on their respective award dates and such expense is recorded over the respective vesting periods of the awards.

16. Warranty Costs. We generally do not independently warrant the products that we distribute. Instead, in most instances, the manufacturers warrant their products and allow us to return defective products, including those that have been returned to us by our customers. However, we sell a line of portable generators under a product supply arrangement which obligates us to provide warranty services for these products and provides for us to share the costs of providing those services with the manufacturer. The warranty period is 24 months following the sale of the product to a retail customer. Accordingly, we maintain a warranty reserve for warranty claims we may receive from customers with respect to the generators they have purchased from us. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, those warranty reserves totaled $690,000 and $564,000, respectively. The actual amounts that we may become obligated to pay with respect to warranty claims on these products may differ from the amounts that are set aside for those reserves, because the reserves have been established on the basis not only of experience, but also on estimates that we make regarding expected warranty returns and costs in the future and actual warranty experience may differ from those estimates.

Although we do not maintain insurance for product warranty claims, we do maintain insurance to protect us against product liability claims relating to all of the products we distribute and sell, including the generator products.

17. Liquidity. We have had negative cash flows from operations in the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, in the amounts of $2.1 million and $0.7 million and $1.6 million, respectively. We have managed our liquidity during that three year period with borrowings under our revolving bank line of credit and, to a lesser extent, by reductions in operating expenses. Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on events outside of our direct control, including, among other things, our financial performance which will be determined by the volume of sales we are able to make and the gross profit we are able to realize, and the continued availability of borrowings under our bank line of credit. We are permitted to borrow under the line of credit up to the lesser of $25 million or an amount equal to the sum of 85% of eligible accounts receivable and 55% of the value of our eligible inventory. At December 31, 2012, we had available unused borrowings under that line of credit of approximately $6.5 million. We believe we have the ability to continue as a going concern at least for the next 12 months.

18. Recent Accounting Pronouncements. With the exception of those discussed below, there have been no recent accounting pronouncements or changes in accounting pronouncements during the year ended December 31, 2012 that we believe are of significance, or potential significance, to the Company based on our current operations.

In July 2012, the FASB issued amended guidance for impairment of indefinite-lived intangible assets. The guidance allows for an option to first access qualitative factors to determine whether the existence or events or circumstances leads to a determination that is more likely than not that the fair value of the indefinite-lived intangible asset exceeds its carrying amount. If the qualitative factors lead us to conclude it is more likely than not that the fair value exceeds the carrying value of the indefinite-lived intangible asset, then the fair value does not need to be calculated. This update was effective for annual and interim impairment tests performed for the fiscal years beginning after September 15, 2012. Accordingly, the amended guidance will be effective for the year ending December 31, 2013. We do not expect that the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on our results of operations.

In June 2011, the FASB issued an amendment to an existing accounting standard which requires companies to present net income and other comprehensive income in one continuous statement or in two separate, but consecutive, statements. In addition, in December 2011, the FASB issued an amendment to an existing accounting standard which defers the requirement to present components of reclassifications of other comprehensive income on the face of the income statement. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of 2012 and it did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

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Warranty Reserve (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Component of Accrued Warranty Expenses

Set forth in the table below is our accrued warranty expense (in thousands), which is included in accrued liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet:

	As of December 31,
	2012			2011
Accrued warranty balance as of January 1,	$	564		$	469
Warranty costs incurred		(1,214	)		(878	)
Provision for warranty claims		1,340			973
Accrued warranty balance as of December 31,	$	690		$	564

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Long Term Obligations - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended			12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Mar. 08, 2013 Subsequent Event	Dec. 31, 2012 Prime Rate	Dec. 31, 2012 Libor Rate
Schedule of Capitalization, Long-term Debt [Line Items]
Debt instrument description	The secured notes payable to bank evidence borrowings under a revolving credit facility which permits us to borrow up to the lesser of (i) $25,000,000, or (ii) an amount equal to 85% of the value of our eligible accounts receivable and up to 55% of the value of our eligible inventory.
Line of credit borrowing capacity	$ 25,000,000
Percentage of eligible accounts receivable permitted to borrow under the line of credit	85.00%
Percentage of eligible inventory permitted to borrow under the line of credit	55.00%
Borrowing base of the company	16,800,000	15,300,000
Interest rate payable				3.25%	0.21%
Additional rate of interest				1.75%	3.25%
Credit facility maturity date	Jul. 10, 2014
Fixed charge coverage ratio maximum	1.10
Fixed charge coverage ratio minimum	1.0
Increase in interest rate	0.25%
Credit line borrowings reduced amount	1,000,000
Outstanding borrowings under revolving credit facility			$ 18,475,000

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Components of Deferred Tax Assets (liabilities) (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012		Dec. 31, 2011
Deferred tax assets
Inventory	$ 1,187		$ 1,185
Bad debt provision	49		85
Property, plant and equipment	109		59
Deferred credits	1,281		1,281
Loss carryforwards	1,054		1,035
Rent	162		150
Other	817		431
Gross deferred tax assets	4,659		4,226
Less valuation allowance	(1,376)		(1,213)
Deferred Tax Assets, Net of Valuation Allowance, Total	3,283		3,013
Deferred tax liabilities
Property, plant and equipment	(61)		(22)
Unremitted earnings of foreign affiliates	(58)		(77)
Other	(30)
Gross deferred tax liabilities	(149)		(99)
Net deferred tax assets	$ 3,134	[1]	$ 2,914	[1]

[1] Of the total deferred tax assets at December 31, 2012 and 2011, $1,849,000 and $1,787,000 were included in current assets and $1,285,000 and $1,127,000 in 2012 and 2011 were included in other long-term assets at December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

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Consolidated Balance Sheets (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 1,942	$ 4,180
Accounts receivable (less allowance for doubtful accounts of $311 in 2012 and $387 in 2011)	9,933	10,900
Inventories, net	30,289	25,852
Deferred tax assets,net	1,849	1,787
Prepaid expenses	848	736
Income tax refunds receivable, net	510	206
Total current assets	45,371	43,661
Property, plant and equipment, net	1,188	1,313
Other assets	3,100	2,762
Assets	49,659	47,736
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	6,135	3,394
Accrued liabilities	3,518	3,223
Total current liabilities	9,653	6,617
Long-term obligations
Line of credit	10,933	10,895
Total liabilities	20,586	17,512
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders' Equity:
Preferred stock, $.001 par value; authorized: 2,000,000 shares; none issued or outstanding
Common stock, $.001 par value; authorized: 10,000,000 shares; 4,923,431 and 4,781,597 issued as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively	17,766	17,320
Accumulated other comprehensive earnings	1,904	1,487
Retained earnings	9,403	11,417
Total stockholders' equity	29,073	30,224
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity	$ 49,659	$ 47,736

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Summary Of Stock Option Activity (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Number of Shares
Beginning Balance	546,001	652,001
Granted	8,000	8,000
Exercised	(3,334)	(7,000)
Forfeited	(117,667)	(107,000)
Ending Balance	433,000	546,001
Exercisable	425,000	476,801
Options vested and expected to vest thereafter	433,000	546,001
Weighted Average Exercise Price
Beginning Balance	$ 4.54	$ 5.01
Granted	$ 1.80	$ 2.74
Exercised	$ 0.90	$ 0.82
Forfeited	$ 7.90	$ 7.54
Ending Balance	$ 3.60	$ 4.54
Exercisable	$ 3.64	$ 5.01
Options vested and expected to vest thereafter	$ 3.60	$ 4.54
Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term
Outstanding, end of period	2 years 4 months 24 days	2 years 9 months 18 days
Exercisable, end of period	2 years 3 months 18 days	2 years 8 months 12 days
Options vested and expected to vest thereafter	2 years 4 months 24 days	2 years 9 months 18 days
Aggregate Intrinsic Value
Outstanding, end of period	$ 157,000	$ 202,800
Exercisable	155,000	131,000
Options vested and expected to vest thereafter	$ 157,000	$ 202,800

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Consolidated Statements Of Stockholders' Equity (USD $) In Thousands, except Share data	Total	Common Stock	Accumulated Other Comprehensive Earnings (Loss)	Retained Earnings
Beginning Balance at Dec. 31, 2009	$ 29,632	$ 16,367	$ 1,114	$ 12,151
Beginning Balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2009		4,449,431
Net earnings (loss)	152			152
Foreign currency translation adjustments	760		760
Issuance of common stock under option plans (in shares)		33,666
Issuance of common stock under option plans	65	65
Issuance of restricted shares of common stock under equity incentive plan		177,000
Stock-based compensation	429	429
Ending Balance at Dec. 31, 2010	31,038	16,861	1,874	12,303
Ending Balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2010		4,660,097
Net earnings (loss)	(886)			(886)
Foreign currency translation adjustments	(387)		(387)
Issuance of common stock under option plans (in shares)	7,000	7,000
Issuance of common stock under option plans	19	19
Issuance of restricted shares of common stock under equity incentive plan		114,500
Stock-based compensation	440	440
Ending Balance at Dec. 31, 2011	30,224	17,320	1,487	11,417
Ending Balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2011		4,781,597
Net earnings (loss)	(2,014)			(2,014)
Foreign currency translation adjustments	417		417
Issuance of common stock under option plans (in shares)	3,334	3,334
Issuance of common stock under option plans	3	3
Reduction in pool of windfall tax benefits	(13)	(13)
Issuance of restricted shares of common stock under equity incentive plan		147,500
Cancellation of restricted shares of common stock (in shares)		(9,000)
Cancellation of restricted shares of common stock
Stock-based compensation	456	456
Ending Balance at Dec. 31, 2012	$ 29,073	$ 17,766	$ 1,904	$ 9,403
Ending Balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2012		4,923,431

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Computation of Diluted Earning Per Share with Exclusion of Antidilutive Securities (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended								12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Sep. 30, 2012	Jun. 30, 2012	Mar. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Sep. 30, 2011	Jun. 30, 2011	Mar. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Numerator:
Net earnings (loss)	$ (1,480)	$ 307	$ 504	$ (1,345)	$ (1,439)	$ 612	$ 980	$ (1,039)	$ (2,014)	$ (886)	$ 152
Denominator:
Weighted average shares outstanding									4,597	4,535	4,475
Dilutive effect of stock options and restricted shares											99
Denominator for diluted earnings (loss) per share									4,597	4,535	4,574

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Property Plant and Equipment Estimated Useful Lives (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012
Buildings and improvements | Minimum
Property Plant and Equipment Estimated Useful Lives [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Estimated Useful Lives	12 years
Buildings and improvements | Maximum
Property Plant and Equipment Estimated Useful Lives [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Estimated Useful Lives	40 years
Warehouse and office equipment | Minimum
Property Plant and Equipment Estimated Useful Lives [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Estimated Useful Lives	5 years
Warehouse and office equipment | Maximum
Property Plant and Equipment Estimated Useful Lives [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Estimated Useful Lives	7 years
Automobiles | Minimum
Property Plant and Equipment Estimated Useful Lives [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Estimated Useful Lives	3 years
Automobiles | Maximum
Property Plant and Equipment Estimated Useful Lives [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Estimated Useful Lives	5 years

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Principles of Consolidation

Principles of Consolidation. The Company consolidates the accounts of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, The Coast Distribution System (Canada) Inc. (“Coast Canada”) and Eur-Asia Recreational Vehicle Accessories Taiwan Company (“Coast Taiwan”). Investments in unconsolidated affiliates are accounted for by the equity method. All material intercompany transactions have been eliminated.

Inventories

Inventories. All of our inventory consists of finished goods, which are comprised of replacement parts, supplies and accessories held for resale. Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (determined on a first-in, first-out basis) or net realizable value. We regularly assess the appropriateness of the inventory valuations with particular attention to obsolete, slow-moving and non-saleable inventory. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, our reserves for excess and obsolete inventory were $1,439,000 and $1,401,000, respectively.

Property, Plant and Equipment

 Property, Plant and Equipment. Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization are provided for in amounts sufficient to relate the cost of depreciable assets to operations over their estimated service lives, principally on a straight-line basis. The estimated lives used in determining depreciation and amortization are:

Buildings and improvements	12 – 40 years
Warehouse and office equipment	5 – 7 years
Automobiles	3 – 5 years

Leasehold improvements are amortized over the lives of the respective leases or the service lives of the improvements, whichever is shorter. Currently the amortization periods range from 5 to 15 years.

Revenue Recognition

Revenue Recognition. Revenue from sales of products is recognized upon shipment. Shipping and handling costs that are billed to our customers are included in revenue. We provide our customers with a limited right of return. We establish an allowance for potential returns which reduces the amounts of our reported sales. We estimate the allowance based on historical experience with returns of like products and current economic data, which can affect the level at which customers submit product returns.

Segment Reporting

Segment Reporting. We have one operating segment, which is the distribution of recreational vehicle and boating replacement parts, supplies and accessories. We distribute our recreational vehicle and boating products from 17 distribution centers located throughout the United States and Canada. No single customer accounted for 10% or more of our net sales in 2012, 2011 or 2010.

Long-Lived Assets

Long-Lived Assets. Long-lived assets are reviewed for possible impairment at least annually or, more frequently, if and when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of any of those assets may not be recoverable in full, by comparing the fair value of the long-lived asset to its carrying amount.

Foreign Currency Translation

Foreign Currency Translation. Exchange adjustments resulting from foreign currency transactions are generally recognized in net earnings; whereas adjustments resulting from the translation of financial statements are reflected as a separate component of stockholders’ equity. The functional currency of our Canadian subsidiary is the Canadian dollar

Derivative Financial Instruments

Derivative Financial Instruments. We sometimes use derivatives to partially offset our exposure to fluctuations in certain foreign currencies. We do not enter into derivatives for speculative or trading purposes. Derivatives are recorded at fair value on the balance sheet and gains or losses resulting from changes in fair value of a derivative are recorded based on the derivative’s hedge designation.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Cash and Cash Equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents include highly liquid instruments with maturities of three months or less and overnight investments funded with cash from sweep accounts maintained by the Company at one or more banks.

Income Taxes

Income Taxes. We provide a deferred tax expense or benefit equal to the net change in the deferred tax liability or asset during the year. Deferred income taxes represent tax deductions and tax loss carryforwards and future net tax effects resulting from temporary differences between the book and tax bases of assets and liabilities, using enacted tax rates. A valuation allowance is established against deferred tax assets if and to the extent we determine that it is more likely, than not, that the deferred tax assets will not be realized in full.

Use of Estimates

 Use of Estimates. In preparing financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), we are required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Earnings (Loss) per Share

Earnings (Loss) per Share. Basic earnings (loss) per share for any period are computed using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during that period. Unvested restricted shares are excluded from outstanding shares for purposes of this calculation. Diluted earnings (loss) per share are computed using the weighted average number of common and potentially dilutive securities outstanding during the period. Potentially dilutive securities consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon exercise of stock options and vested restricted shares (using the treasury stock method). Potentially dilutive securities are excluded from the computation if their effect is anti-dilutive.

Options to purchase 433,000, 546,001 and 422,000 shares in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively, were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings (loss) per share because the respective exercise prices per share of those options were greater than the average market price of our shares of common stock during the year, or because by including the unvested compensation expense associated with the options, the calculation of common stock equivalents under the treasury method would be anti-dilutive. In addition, 312,501, 232,501 and 177,000 restricted shares were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings (loss) per share in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively, because their inclusion in that computation would have been anti-dilutive.

Fair Value Measurement of Financial Assets and Liabilities

Fair Value Measurement of Financial Assets and Liabilities. We apply fair value accounting for all financial assets and liabilities and non-financial assets and liabilities that are recognized or disclosed at fair value in the financial statements on a recurring basis. We define fair value as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities that are required to be recorded at fair value, we consider the principal or most advantageous market in which we would transact and the market-based risk measurements or assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, such as inherent risk, transfer restrictions and credit risk.

GAAP establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring the fair values of financial and non-financial assets and liabilities. These tiers consist of:

Level 1: Quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities

Level 2: Observable market based inputs or unobservable inputs that are corroborated by market data

Level 3: Unobservable inputs that are not corroborated by market data

The following tables summarize the fair value measurements (in thousands of dollars) of our financial assets and liabilities:

	At December 31, 2012
	Total		Quoted market prices in active markets (level 1)		Significant other observable Inputs (level 2)
Cash equivalents – Overnight Investments	$	1,283	$	—	$	1,283

	At December 31, 2011
	Total		Quoted market prices in active markets (level 1)		Significant other observable Inputs (level 2)
Cash equivalents – Overnight Investments	$	3,190	$	—	$	3,190

The Company had no level 3 assets or liabilities at December 31, 2012 and 2011.

We use the income approach to value derivatives, using observable Level 2 market expectations at the measurement date and standard valuation techniques to convert future amounts to a single discounted present amount, assuming that participants are motivated but not compelled to transact. Level 2 inputs are limited to quoted prices that are observable for the asset and liabilities, which include interest rate and credit risk. We have used mid-market pricing as a practical expedient for fair value measurements.

Accounts Receivable and the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Accounts Receivable and the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. The majority of our accounts receivable are due from RV dealers, supply stores and service centers. Credit is extended to a customer based on evaluation of its financial condition and, generally, collateral is not required. We maintain allowances for doubtful accounts for estimated losses that would result from the inability of customers to make required payments on their accounts. We regularly evaluate the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts. We estimate potential losses on our accounts receivable on the basis of the aging of accounts receivable balances, a review of significant past due accounts, and our historical write-off experience, net of recoveries. If the financial condition of our customers were to deteriorate, whether due to deteriorating economic conditions generally or otherwise, adversely affecting their ability to make payments, we would make additional provisions to increase the allowance for doubtful accounts.

Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-Based Compensation. We account for stock-based compensation in accordance with ASC 718, Stock Compensation, which requires the recognition of the fair value of compensation paid in stock or other equity instruments as an expense in the calculation of net earnings (loss). Accordingly, we recognize stock-based compensation expense in the period in which the employee to whom stock-based compensation is awarded is required to provide service, which is generally over the vesting period of the individual equity instruments. Stock options granted in lieu of cash to non-employees for services performed are recorded at the fair value of the options at the time they are granted and are expensed as service is provided by the optionee. We record stock-based compensation expense for restricted share awards based on the fair market value of the shares on their respective award dates and such expense is recorded over the respective vesting periods of the awards.

Warranty Costs

Warranty Costs. We generally do not independently warrant the products that we distribute. Instead, in most instances, the manufacturers warrant their products and allow us to return defective products, including those that have been returned to us by our customers. However, we sell a line of portable generators under a product supply arrangement which obligates us to provide warranty services for these products and provides for us to share the costs of providing those services with the manufacturer. The warranty period is 24 months following the sale of the product to a retail customer. Accordingly, we maintain a warranty reserve for warranty claims we may receive from customers with respect to the generators they have purchased from us. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, those warranty reserves totaled $690,000 and $564,000, respectively. The actual amounts that we may become obligated to pay with respect to warranty claims on these products may differ from the amounts that are set aside for those reserves, because the reserves have been established on the basis not only of experience, but also on estimates that we make regarding expected warranty returns and costs in the future and actual warranty experience may differ from those estimates.

Although we do not maintain insurance for product warranty claims, we do maintain insurance to protect us against product liability claims relating to all of the products we distribute and sell, including the generator products.

Liquidity

Liquidity. We have had negative cash flows from operations in the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, in the amounts of $2.1 million and $0.7 million and $1.6 million, respectively. We have managed our liquidity during that three year period with borrowings under our revolving bank line of credit and, to a lesser extent, by reductions in operating expenses. Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on events outside of our direct control, including, among other things, our financial performance which will be determined by the volume of sales we are able to make and the gross profit we are able to realize, and the continued availability of borrowings under our bank line of credit. We are permitted to borrow under the line of credit up to the lesser of $25 million or an amount equal to the sum of 85% of eligible accounts receivable and 55% of the value of our eligible inventory. At December 31, 2012, we had available unused borrowings under that line of credit of approximately $6.5 million. We believe we have the ability to continue as a going concern at least for the next 12 months.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Recent Accounting Pronouncements. With the exception of those discussed below, there have been no recent accounting pronouncements or changes in accounting pronouncements during the year ended December 31, 2012 that we believe are of significance, or potential significance, to the Company based on our current operations.

In July 2012, the FASB issued amended guidance for impairment of indefinite-lived intangible assets. The guidance allows for an option to first access qualitative factors to determine whether the existence or events or circumstances leads to a determination that is more likely than not that the fair value of the indefinite-lived intangible asset exceeds its carrying amount. If the qualitative factors lead us to conclude it is more likely than not that the fair value exceeds the carrying value of the indefinite-lived intangible asset, then the fair value does not need to be calculated. This update was effective for annual and interim impairment tests performed for the fiscal years beginning after September 15, 2012. Accordingly, the amended guidance will be effective for the year ending December 31, 2013. We do not expect that the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on our results of operations.

In June 2011, the FASB issued an amendment to an existing accounting standard which requires companies to present net income and other comprehensive income in one continuous statement or in two separate, but consecutive, statements. In addition, in December 2011, the FASB issued an amendment to an existing accounting standard which defers the requirement to present components of reclassifications of other comprehensive income on the face of the income statement. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of 2012 and it did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

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Fair Value Measurements of Financial Assets and Liabilities (Detail) (Short Term Investments and Cash Equivalents, USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis [Line Items]
Cash equivalents - Overnight Investments	$ 1,283	$ 3,190
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 1
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis [Line Items]
Cash equivalents - Overnight Investments
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 2
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis [Line Items]
Cash equivalents - Overnight Investments	$ 1,283	$ 3,190

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Property, Plant and Equipment (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Property and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment, net consist of the following at December 31:

	2012			2011
	(In thousands)
Warehouse equipment	$	5,441		$	5,546
Office equipment		5,241			5,285
Leasehold improvements		1,566			1,635
Automobiles		115			130
		12,363			12,596
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization		(11,175	)		(11,283	)
	$	1,188		$	1,313

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net earnings (loss)	$ (2,014)	$ (886)	$ 152
Adjustments to reconcile net earnings (loss) to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation	652	657	716
Amortization	59	161	37
Loss from sale of property and equipment	35	31	2
Equity in net earnings of unconsolidated affiliates, net of distributions	(160)	(35)	(57)
Loss from transfer of ownership in affiliated company			98
Stock-based compensation expense	456	440	428
Deferred income taxes	(220)	(166)	51
Change in assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable	967	(1,037)	(1,032)
Inventory	(4,437)	60	(2,927)
Prepaids and income tax refunds receivable	(449)	58	425
Accounts payable	2,741	19	433
Accrued liabilities	295	(33)	107
Net cash used in operating activities	(2,075)	(731)	(1,567)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Proceeds from sale of property and equipment	23	22	44
Increase in other assets	(160)	(123)	(63)
Capital expenditures	(394)	(329)	(247)
Net cash used in investing activities	(531)	(430)	(266)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Borrowings under line-of credit agreements	124,949	110,648	108,945
Repayments under line-of credit agreements	(124,911)	(109,866)	(108,469)
Repayments of capital lease obligations			(111)
Issuance of common stock under employee equity incentive plans	3	19	65
Reduction in pool of windfall tax benefits	(13)
Net cash provided by financing activities	28	801	430
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash	340	(300)	682
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents	(2,238)	(660)	(721)
Cash and cash equivalents beginning of year	4,180	4,840	5,561
Cash and cash equivalents end of year	1,942	4,180	4,840
Cash paid (refunded) during the year for:
Interest	552	522	579
Income taxes	$ (164)	$ (24)	$ (79)

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Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parenthetical) (USD $) In Thousands, except Share data, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Accounts receivable, allowance	$ 311	$ 387
Preferred stock, par value	$ 0.001	$ 0.001
Preferred stock, shares authorized	2,000,000	2,000,000
Preferred stock, shares issued
Preferred stock, shares outstanding
Common stock, par value	$ 0.001	$ 0.001
Common stock, shares authorized	10,000,000	10,000,000
Common stock, shares issued	4,923,431	4,781,597

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Accrued Liabilities

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Accrued Liabilities

NOTE J: ACCRUED LIABILITIES

Accrued liabilities consisted of the following at December 31:

	2012		2011
	(In thousands)
Payroll and related benefits	$	703	$	662
Rent		465		429
Income and other taxes		404		413
Other		1,946		1,719
	$	3,518	$	3,223

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Document and Entity Information (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Mar. 11, 2013	Jun. 30, 2012
Document Information [Line Items]
Document Type	10-K
Amendment Flag	false
Document Period End Date	Dec. 31, 2012
Document Fiscal Year Focus	2012
Document Fiscal Period Focus	FY
Trading Symbol	CRV
Entity Registrant Name	COAST DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM INC
Entity Central Index Key	0000728303
Current Fiscal Year End Date	--12-31
Entity Well-known Seasoned Issuer	No
Entity Current Reporting Status	Yes
Entity Voluntary Filers	No
Entity Filer Category	Smaller Reporting Company
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding		4,923,431
Entity Public Float			$ 8,025,000

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Warranty Reserve

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Warranty Reserve

NOTE K: WARRANTY RESERVE

We generally do not independently provide warranties on the products that we distribute. Instead, in almost all cases, the manufacturers of the products that we distribute warrant the products and allow us to return defective products, including those that have been returned to us by our customers. However, we sell a line of portable generators under a product supply arrangement which obligates us to provide warranty services for these products and to share the costs of providing those services with the manufacturer. Accordingly, we maintain a reserve against which we charge warranty claims we receive with respect to those generators. The amount of the reserve is determined based primarily on our historical warranty claims experience and the number of portable generators that we sell each year. We periodically increase the warranty reserve to replenish it after it has been reduced by warranty claims charged against it or to increase the reserve in response to increases in claims or in the number of generators that we have sold. Those increases are effectuated by means of a provision for warranty claims which is recorded as a component of our costs of sales in our consolidated statements of operations.

Set forth in the table below is our accrued warranty expense (in thousands), which is included in accrued liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet:

	As of December 31,
	2012			2011
Accrued warranty balance as of January 1,	$	564		$	469
Warranty costs incurred		(1,214	)		(878	)
Provision for warranty claims		1,340			973
Accrued warranty balance as of December 31,	$	690		$	564

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Consolidated Statements of Operations (USD $) In Thousands, except Per Share data, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Net sales	$ 113,521	$ 108,195	$ 108,600
Cost of sales (including distribution costs)	96,219	90,166	88,985
Gross profit	17,302	18,029	19,615
Selling, general and administrative expenses	19,435	18,573	18,330
Operating income (loss)	(2,133)	(544)	1,285
Equity in net earnings of unconsolidated affiliates	160	35	57
Other expense
Interest expense	(552)	(540)	(579)
Other	(70)	(92)	(194)
Earnings (loss) before income taxes	(2,595)	(1,141)	569
Income tax provision (benefit)	(581)	(255)	417
Net earnings (loss)	$ (2,014)	$ (886)	$ 152
Basic earnings (loss) per share	$ (0.44)	$ (0.20)	$ 0.03
Diluted earnings (loss) per share	$ (0.44)	$ (0.20)	$ 0.03

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Stock Incentive Plans

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Stock Incentive Plans

NOTE E: STOCK INCENTIVE PLANS

In August 2012, our shareholders approved the 2012 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2012 Plan”), which provides for the grant of equity incentives, consisting of options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock and restricted stock units to officers, other key employees, directors and consultants. The 2012 Plan initially set aside, for the grant of such equity incentives, 300,000 shares of our common stock, plus an additional 17,666 shares which was equal to the total of the shares that were then available for the grant of new options under our then existing stockholder-approved stock incentive plans (the “Previous Plans”). At the same time, those 17,666 shares ceased to be available for the grant of equity incentive under those Previous Plans. At December 31, 2012, options to purchase a total of 433,000 shares of our common stock and a total of 312,501 shares of restricted stock were outstanding, and 323,833 shares remained available for future grants of equity incentives, under the 2012 Plan.

The Previously Approved Plans had provided that, if any options outstanding under any of those Plans were to expire or otherwise terminate, rather than being exercised, the shares that had been subject to those options would become available for the grant of new options or other equity incentives under those Plans. However, the 2012 Plan provides, instead, that if any of those options expire or terminate for any reason, then, the number of shares that will become available for grants or awards of equity incentives under the 2012 Plan will be increased by an equivalent number of shares, instead of becoming available for new equity incentive grants under the Previously Approved Plans. Therefore, if any equity incentives outstanding under the Previously Approved Plans as of December 31, 2012 expire, terminate or are reacquired by the Company, then a number of shares, equal to the number of shares that had been subject to those equity incentives, would become available for future grants under the 2012 Plan and those shares would cease to be available for future grants under the Previously Approved Plans.

Information Regarding Stock Options. The fair value of each option was estimated as of the date of grant using a binomial model. This model incorporates certain assumptions including a risk-free market interest rate, the expected dividend yield of the underlying common stock, the expected life of the option and expected volatility in the market value of the underlying common stock.

We used the following assumptions in estimating the fair value of the options issued in the periods indicated below:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
Expected volatility		59.00	%		72.00	%		71.00	%
Risk free interest rate		1.64	%		2.15	%		2.79	%
Expected dividend yields		N/A			N/A			N/A
Expected lives		10 years			10 years			10 years

Expected volatilities are based on the historical volatility of the Company’s common stock. The risk free interest rate is based upon market yields for United States Treasury debt securities. The expected dividend yields are based upon the Company’s dividend policy in effect in each of the years presented and the fair market value of the Company’s shares at the time of grant. Expected lives are based on several factors including the average holding period of the outstanding options, their remaining terms and the cycle of our long range business plan.

The following tables summarize stock option activity during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011:

	Year Ended December 31, 2012
	Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term		Aggregate Intrinsic Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2012		546,001		$	4.54
Granted		8,000			1.80
Exercised		(3,334	)		0.90
Forfeited		(117,667	)		7.90
Outstanding at December 31, 2012		433,000			3.60		2.4 years	$	157,000
Exercisable at December 31, 2012		425,000			3.64		2.3 years	$	155,000
Options vested and expected (as of December 31, 2012) to vest in the future		433,000			3.60		2.4 years	$	157,000

	Year Ended December 31, 2011
	Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term		Aggregate Intrinsic Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2011		652,001		$	5.01
Granted		8,000			2.74
Exercised		(7,000	)		0.82
Forfeited		(107,000	)		7.54
Outstanding at December 31, 2011		546,001			4.54		2.8 years	$	202,800
Exercisable at December 31, 2011		476,801			5.01		2.7 years	$	131,000
Options vested and expected (as of December 31, 2011) to vest in the future		546,001			4.54		2.8 years	$	202,800

The aggregate intrinsic value in each of the tables above represents the total pre-tax intrinsic value (the aggregate difference between the closing stock price of the Company’s common stock on December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and the exercise price for in-the-money options that would have been received by the option holders if all in-the-money options had been exercised on December 31, 2012 or 2011, respectively). The total pre-tax intrinsic values of the options exercised during 2012 and 2011 were $3,000 and $21,000, respectively.

The weighted-average grant-date fair values of options granted during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 were $1.28 and $1.97, respectively.

A summary of the status of the Company’s unvested stock options as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and the changes that occurred during each of the years then ended is presented below:

	Shares			Weighted  Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested at January 1, 2012		69,200		$	0.73
Granted		8,000			1.28
Vested		(69,200	)		0.73
Forfeited		—			—
Unvested at December 31, 2012		8,000		$	1.28

	Shares			Weighted  Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested at January 1, 2011		190,100		$	1.11
Granted		8,000			1.97
Vested		(128,900	)		1.37
Forfeited		—			—
Unvested at December 31, 2011		69,200		$	0.73

As of December 31, 2012 and 2011, there was $3,000 and $8,550, respectively, of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested options granted under the Company’s equity incentive plans. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, those costs were expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 0.2 years and 0.5 years, respectively.

Set forth below is additional information with respect to the stock options that were outstanding under our equity incentive plans at December 31, 2012:

Range	Outstanding Options		Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)		Options Exercisable		Weighted Average Exercise Price
$0.63 – $4.50		236,000	$	1.66		2.9		228,000	$	1.65
$4.75 – $9.80		197,000	$	5.94		1.9		197,000	$	5.94
$0.63 – $9.80		433,000	$	3.60		2.4		425,000	$	3.64

Restricted Shares. We awarded a total of 147,500 and 114,500 restricted shares of common stock (“restricted shares”) during 2012 and 2011, respectively, to certain officers and other key management employees under the Company’s equity Plan. Restricted shares are shares of common stock that are granted subject to a risk of possible forfeiture back to the Company, if the recipient of the shares ceases to remain in the Company’s continuous service for a specified period or periods of time. If the recipient remains in the Company’s continuous service for the requisite period of time, the restricted shares will become “vested” (that is, cease to be subject to forfeiture). Until restricted shares become vested, those shares may not be sold or otherwise transferred, in whole or in part, by the holders of those shares, and are subject to additional restrictions. We record stock-based compensation expense for restricted share awards based on the fair market value of the shares on their respective award dates and such expense is recorded over the respective vesting periods of the awards. At December 31, 2012, the unrecognized stock-based compensation cost attributable to these restricted shares totaled approximately $578,000 which, as of that date, was expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 1.6 years. As of December 31, 2012, all of the holders of the remaining 312,501 unvested restricted shares were still in the Company’s employ and all of those restricted shares are expected to vest over the remainder of their respective vesting periods. The aggregate intrinsic value of these restricted shares, at December 31, 2012, was $625,000.

A summary of restricted stock activity during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 is presented below:

	Shares			Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2012		232,501		$	4.31
Granted		147,500			2.28
Vested		(58,500	)		4.15
Forfeited		(9,000	)		3.89
Outstanding and unvested at end of year		312,501		$	3.39
	Shares			Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2011		177,000		$	4.15
Granted		114,500			4.47
Vested		(58,999	)		4.15
Forfeited		—			—
Outstanding and unvested at end of year		232,501		$	4.31

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Commitments and Contingencies

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Commitments and Contingencies

NOTE D: COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Operating Leases. We lease our corporate offices, warehouse facilities, and some of our office equipment. These leases are classified as operating leases as they do not meet the required capitalization criteria. The office and warehouse leases expire at various dates over the next twelve years.

Minimum future rental commitments under non-cancelable operating leases as of December 31, 2012, in thousands of dollars, are as follows:

Year Ending December 31,
2013	$	3,755
2014		3,442
2015		3,281
2016		2,797
2017		531
Thereafter		1,373
	$	15,179

Rent expense charged to operations amounted to $3,938,000 in 2012, $4,170,000 in 2011, and $4,511,000 in 2010.

Legal Proceedings. We are subject to legal proceedings, claims and litigation arising in the ordinary course of business, including product liability and personal injury and intellectual property litigation. While the outcome of currently pending litigation is not determinable due to the uncertainties inherent in litigation, based on the information currently available to us, we do not expect that any liabilities or costs that might be incurred to resolve these matters will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Estimated Lives Used in Determining Depreciation and Amortization

The estimated lives used in determining depreciation and amortization are:

Buildings and improvements	12 – 40 years
Warehouse and office equipment	5 – 7 years
Automobiles	3 – 5 years

Summary of Fair Value Measurement of Financial Assets and Liabilities

The following tables summarize the fair value measurements (in thousands of dollars) of our financial assets and liabilities:

	At December 31, 2012
	Total		Quoted market prices in active markets (level 1)		Significant other observable Inputs (level 2)
Cash equivalents – Overnight Investments	$	1,283	$	—	$	1,283

	At December 31, 2011
	Total		Quoted market prices in active markets (level 1)		Significant other observable Inputs (level 2)
Cash equivalents – Overnight Investments	$	3,190	$	—	$	3,190

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Significant Concentrations

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Significant Concentrations

NOTE L: SIGNIFICANT CONCENTRATIONS

Our ability to satisfy demand for our products may be limited by the availability of those products from our suppliers. We purchase air conditioners from Airxcel, Inc. (“Airxcel”) and generators from Zhejiang Xingyu Industry and Trade Co., Ltd, (“Zhejiang”). Our purchases from Airxcel accounted for approximately 22%, 20%, and 18% of our total product purchases in 2012, 2011, and 2010, respectively. Our purchases from Zhejiang accounted for 6% of our total product purchases in 2012 and 2011, but less than 5% in 2010.

Concentration of Credit Risk. We maintain bank accounts with high quality financial institutions to minimize credit risk. However, our deposit balances may periodically exceed federal deposit insurance limits.

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Income Taxes

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Income Taxes

NOTE H: INCOME TAXES

Pretax income (loss) for the years ending December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was taxed in the following jurisdictions:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Domestic	$	(807	)	$	(500	)	$	(383	)
Foreign		(1,788	)		(641	)		952
	$	(2,595	)	$	(1,141	)	$	569

The provision (benefit) for income taxes in each of 2012, 2011 and 2010 is summarized below:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Current
Federal	$	—		$	—		$	—
State		61			67			86
Foreign		(409	)		(166	)		273
		(348	)		(99	)		359
Deferred
Federal		(171	)		(178	)		(30	)
State		—			—			13
Foreign		(62	)		22			75
		(233	)		(156	)		58
	$	(581	)	$	(255	)	$	417

Deferred  tax assets (liabilities) were comprised of the following at December 31:

	2012			2011
	(In thousands)
Deferred tax assets
Inventory	$	1,187		$	1,185
Bad debt provision		49			85
Property, plant and equipment		109			59
Deferred credits		1,281			1,281
Loss carryforwards		1,054			1,035
Rent		162			150
Other		817			431
Gross deferred tax assets		4,659			4,226
Less valuation allowance(2)		(1,376	)		(1,213	)
		3,283			3,013
Deferred tax liabilities
Property, plant and equipment		(61	)		(22	)
Unremitted earnings of foreign affiliates		(58	)		(77	)
Other		(30	)		—
Gross deferred tax liabilities		(149	)		(99	)
Net deferred tax assets(1)	$	3,134		$	2,914

(1) Of the total deferred tax assets at December 31, 2012 and 2011, $1,849,000 and $1,787,000 were included in current assets and $1,285,000 and $1,127,000 in 2012 and 2011 were included in other long-term assets at December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

(2) The deferred tax valuation allowance increased by $163,000 during 2012, $15,000 during 2011 and $37,000 during 2010.

Set forth below is a reconciliation between actual tax expense and expected tax expense for the respective periods presented below:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Earnings (loss) before income taxes	$	(2,595	)	$	(1,141	)	$	569
Expected income tax expense at 34%	$	(882	)	$	(388	)	$	193
Difference in rates on earnings of foreign operations		83			80			6
Stock based compensation and other nondeductible expenses		27			43			96
State taxes and credits (net of federal benefit)		50			40			80
Change in valuation allowance		—			7			36
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries		(19	)		(1	)		—
Exclusion of earnings of foreign affiliates		(54	)		(12	)		(6	)
Foreign dividend		192			—			—
Other		22			(24	)		12
Income tax provision (benefit)	$	(581	)	$	(255	)	$	417

Deferred income taxes have been provided on the undistributed earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries where it is contemplated that earnings will not be reinvested.

At December 31, 2012, the operating loss carryforwards available for federal and state income tax purposes were $2,033,000 and $4,532,000, respectively. The earliest carryforwards begin to expire in 2013. At December 31, 2012, foreign tax credit carryforwards available for federal income tax purposes totaled $328,000, which expire in 2015. State targeted tax area credit carryforwards of $1,245,000 are available with no expiration dates.

It is our policy to classify interest and penalties as a component of tax expense. At December 31, 2012 we had $263,000 of unrecognized tax benefits, of which $3,000 impacted our effective tax rate. Interest and penalties totaled $131,000, which was accrued on the balance sheet at December 31, 2012.

The Company and its domestic subsidiaries file income tax returns in the US federal jurisdiction and in various state jurisdictions. The Company’s foreign subsidiaries file income tax returns in the respective jurisdictions in which they are based. With few exceptions, we are no longer subject to tax examinations by taxing authorities for years before 2007. We do not expect total unrecognized tax benefits to change significantly during the year ending December 31, 2013 due to the expiration of any statutes of limitations.

A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amounts of unrecognized tax benefits is as follows:

Unrecognized Tax Benefits (in thousands):	2012		2011
Balance as of January 1,	$	260	$	260
Additions for tax positions related to the current year		3		29
Reductions for tax positions of prior years		—		(29	)
Balance as of December 31,	$	263	$	260

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Components of Accrued Liabilities (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Accrued Liabilities [Line Items]
Payroll and related benefits	$ 703	$ 662
Rent	465	429
Income and other taxes	404	413
Other	1,946	1,719
Accrued liabilities current	$ 3,518	$ 3,223

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Employee Benefit Plan

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Employee Benefit Plan

NOTE F: EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN

We have established a profit sharing plan in which all full-time employees are eligible to participate beginning the first quarter following the completion of three months of employment with the Company or any of its subsidiaries. This plan allows participants to make pretax contributions and apply for and secure loans from their respective accounts. The plan permits the Company to make discretionary contributions to be determined annually by the Company’s Board of Directors or Compensation Committee. The Company made no contributions to the plan in 2012, 2011 or 2010.

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Foreign Operations

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Foreign Operations

NOTE G: FOREIGN OPERATIONS

A summary of the Company’s operations by geographic area is presented below for the years ended December 31:

	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Net sales to external customers
United States	$	85,374		$	81,856		$	80,890
Canada		28,147			26,339			27,710
Other		—			—			—
Operating income (loss)
United States	$	(459	)	$	7		$	206
Canada		(1,607	)		(582	)		769
Other		(67	)		31			310
Identifiable assets
United States	$	38,341		$	35,317		$	34,175
Canada		11,009			11,630			12,742
Other		309			789			865

The Company has an equity investment in a corporation which conducts a business that is similar to the Company’s business, but in a much smaller scale, in Mexico. That investment, which is included in long term assets on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet, totaled approximately $935,000 and $710,000 at December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively. The results of operation of this corporation are included in equity in the net earnings of unconsolidated affiliates in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

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Earnings (Loss) per Share

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Earnings (Loss) per Share

NOTE I: EARNINGS (LOSS) PER SHARE

We calculate basic earnings (loss) per share (EPS) of our common stock for any period by dividing the Company’s net earnings (loss) by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for that period. The calculation of diluted EPS assumes the issuance of common stock for all potentially dilutive share equivalents outstanding. Outstanding stock options and restricted shares were not considered to be dilutive securities for the year ended December 31, 2012 due to the net loss incurred by the Company in 2012. Set forth below are the computations of basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share for each of the following periods:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(In thousands)
Numerator:
Net earnings (loss)	$	(2,014	)	$	(886	)	$	152
Denominator:
Weighted average shares outstanding		4,597			4,535			4,475
Dilutive effect of stock options and restricted shares		—			—			99
Denominator for diluted earnings (loss) per share		4,597			4,535			4,574

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Valuation and Qualifying Accounts (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012		Dec. 31, 2011		Dec. 31, 2010
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts Disclosure [Line Items]
Balance at Beginning of Period	$ 387,000		$ 656,000		$ 740,000
Adjustments	23,000		(160,000)		(48,000)
Deductions	(99,000)		(109,000)		(36,000)
Balance at End of Period	311,000		387,000		656,000
Allowance for Obsolete or Slow-Moving Inventory
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts Disclosure [Line Items]
Balance at Beginning of Period	1,401,000		2,009,000		1,796,000
Adjustments	224,000		179,000		470,000
Deductions	(186,000)		(787,000)		(257,000)
Balance at End of Period	1,439,000		1,401,000		2,009,000
Valuation Allowance of Deferred Tax Assets
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts Disclosure [Line Items]
Balance at Beginning of Period	1,213,000		1,198,000
Adjustments	1,213,000		1,198,000		1,161,000
Additions	163,000		15,000		37,000
Deductions		[1]		[1]		[1]
Balance at End of Period	$ 1,376,000		$ 1,213,000		$ 1,198,000

[1] Net operating loss carryforwards used or expired.

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Quarterly Financial Data (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, except Per Share data, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended								12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Sep. 30, 2012	Jun. 30, 2012	Mar. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Sep. 30, 2011	Jun. 30, 2011	Mar. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Quarterly Financial Data [Line Items]
Net sales	$ 20,674	$ 34,484	$ 34,115	$ 24,248	$ 18,694	$ 31,586	$ 33,218	$ 24,697	$ 113,521	$ 108,195	$ 108,600
Gross profit	2,596	5,688	5,609	3,409	2,123	5,706	6,302	3,898	17,302	18,029	19,615
Net earnings (loss)	$ (1,480)	$ 307	$ 504	$ (1,345)	$ (1,439)	$ 612	$ 980	$ (1,039)	$ (2,014)	$ (886)	$ 152
Net earnings (loss) per share - diluted	$ (0.32)	$ 0.07	$ 0.11	$ (0.30)	$ (0.32)	$ 0.13	$ 0.21	$ (0.23)	$ (0.44)	$ (0.20)	$ 0.03

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012 Segment Customer Distributor	Dec. 31, 2011 Customer	Dec. 31, 2010 Customer
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Reserves for excess and obsolete inventory	$ 1,439,000	$ 1,401,000
Number of Operating Segments	1
Number Of Distribution Centers	17
Number Of Customer Accounted For Ten Percent Or More Net Sales	0	0	0
Warranty period for retail customer	24 months
Warranty reserves	690,000	564,000
Net cash used in operating activities	(2,075,000)	(731,000)	(1,567,000)
Line of credit maximum borrowing capacity	25,000,000
Percentage of eligible accounts receivable permitted to borrow under the line of credit	85.00%
Percentage of eligible inventory permitted to borrow under the line of credit	55.00%
Line of credit facility borrowing description	We are permitted to borrow under the line of credit up to the lesser of $25 million or an amount equal to the sum of 85% of eligible accounts receivable and 55% of the value of our eligible inventory.
Line of credit available borrowing capacity	$ 6,500,000
Stock Options
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Anti-dilutive shares excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share	433,000	546,001	422,000
Restricted Stock
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Anti-dilutive shares excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share	312,501	232,501	177,000
Leasehold Improvements | Minimum
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Leasehold improvements amortization Period	5 years
Leasehold Improvements | Maximum
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Leasehold improvements amortization Period	15 years

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Pretax Income (Loss) (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Schedule of Components of Income Before Income Tax Expense (Benefit) [Line Items]
Domestic	$ (807)	$ (500)	$ (383)
Foreign	(1,788)	(641)	952
Earnings (loss) before income taxes	$ (2,595)	$ (1,141)	$ 569

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Schedule II Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Schedule II Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

SCHEDULE II

THE COAST DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS

December 31, 2010, 2011 and 2012

Description	Balance at Beginning of Period		Adjustments			Write Off of Bad Debts			Balance at End of Period
Allowance for doubtful accounts:
Year Ended December 31, 2010	$	740,000	$	(48,000	)	$	(36,000	)	$	656,000
Year Ended December 31, 2011	$	656,000	$	(160,000	)	$	(109,000	)	$	387,000
Year Ended December 31, 2012	$	387,000	$	23,000		$	(99,000	)	$	311,000
Description	Balance at Beginning of Period		Adjustments			Write Off of Scrapped Inventory			Balance at End of Period
Allowance for obsolete or slow-moving inventory:
Year Ended December 31, 2010	$	1,796,000	$	470,000		$	(257,000	)	$	2,009,000
Year Ended December 31, 2011	$	2,009,000	$	179,000		$	(787,000	)	$	1,401,000
Year Ended December 31, 2012	$	1,401,000	$	224,000		$	(186,000	)	$	1,439,000
Description	Balance at Beginning of Period		Additions			Deductions(1)			Balance at End of Period
Valuation allowance for deferred tax assets:
Year Ended December 31, 2010	$	1,161,000	$	37,000		$	—		$	1,198,000
Year Ended December 31, 2011	$	1,198,000	$	15,000		$	—		$	1,213,000
Year Ended December 31, 2012	$	1,213,000	$	163,000		$	—		$	1,376,000

(1) Net operating loss carryforwards used or expired.

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Commitments and Contingencies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Operating Leases Future Minimum Rent Payable

Minimum future rental commitments under non-cancelable operating leases as of December 31, 2012, in thousands of dollars, are as follows:

Year Ending December 31,
2013	$	3,755
2014		3,442
2015		3,281
2016		2,797
2017		531
Thereafter		1,373
	$	15,179

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Summary of Operations by Geographic Area (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended								12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Sep. 30, 2012	Jun. 30, 2012	Mar. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Sep. 30, 2011	Jun. 30, 2011	Mar. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Net sales to external customers	$ 20,674	$ 34,484	$ 34,115	$ 24,248	$ 18,694	$ 31,586	$ 33,218	$ 24,697	$ 113,521	$ 108,195	$ 108,600
Operating income (loss)									(2,133)	(544)	1,285
Assets	49,659				47,736				49,659	47,736
USA
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Net sales to external customers									85,374	81,856	80,890
Operating income (loss)									(459)	7	206
Assets	38,341				35,317				38,341	35,317	34,175
Canada
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Net sales to external customers									28,147	26,339	27,710
Operating income (loss)									(1,607)	(582)	769
Assets	11,009				11,630				11,009	11,630	12,742
Other Countries
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Net sales to external customers
Operating income (loss)									(67)	31	310
Assets	$ 309				$ 789				$ 309	$ 789	$ 865

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Operating Leases Future Minimum Rent Payable (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012
Operating Leased Assets [Line Items]
2013	$ 3,755
2014	3,442
2015	3,281
2016	2,797
2017	531
Thereafter	1,373
Total	$ 15,179

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Consolidated Statements Of Comprehensive Earnings (Loss) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Net earnings (loss)	$ (2,014)	$ (886)	$ 152
Other comprehensive earnings (loss):
Foreign currency translation adjustment	417	(387)	760
Comprehensive earnings (loss)	$ (1,597)	$ (1,273)	$ 912

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Long-Term Obligations

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Long-Term Obligations

NOTE C: LONG-TERM OBLIGATIONS

Long-term obligations consist of the following at December 31:

	2012		2011
	(In thousands)
Secured notes payable to bank under line of credit due July 10, 2014	$	10,933	$	10,895

Secured Notes Payable to Bank

The secured notes payable to bank evidence borrowings under a revolving credit facility which permits us to borrow up to the lesser of (i) $25,000,000, or (ii) an amount equal to 85% of the value of our eligible accounts receivable and up to 55% of the value of our eligible inventory. The Company’s borrowing base at December 31, 2012 was $16,800,000 as compared to $15,300,000, at December 31, 2011. Interest is payable at the bank’s prime rate (3.25% at December 31, 2012) plus 1.75% or, at the Company’s option but subject to certain limitations, at the bank’s LIBOR rate (0.21% at December 31, 2012) plus 3.25%. The credit facility is scheduled to mature at July 10, 2014.

The revolving bank line of credit agreement, as amended, contains a single financial covenant, which requires us to achieve a fixed charge coverage ratio of at least 1.10 to 1.0 for successive rolling 12 month periods ending on the last day of each fiscal quarter, commencing with the 12 month period ending March 31, 2013. Until that covenant is satisfied, the interest rate on our borrowings will be at LIBOR plus 3.25%, an increase of 0.25%, as compared to the interest rate that was in effect in 2011 and available borrowings under the line of credit will be reduced by $1 million.

At March 8, 2013, outstanding borrowings under the revolving credit facility totaled $18,475,000. Our credit facility borrowings are secured by substantially all of our consolidated assets and rank senior in priority to any other indebtedness that the Company may incur.

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Schedule of Reconciliation of Unrecognized Tax Benefits (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Income Tax Contingency [Line Items]
Beginning Balance	$ 260	$ 260
Additions for tax positions related to the current year	3	29
Reductions for tax positions of prior years		(29)
Ending Balance	$ 263	$ 260

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Stock Incentive Plans (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Assumptions of Estimated Fair Value of Options

We used the following assumptions in estimating the fair value of the options issued in the periods indicated below:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
Expected volatility		59.00	%		72.00	%		71.00	%
Risk free interest rate		1.64	%		2.15	%		2.79	%
Expected dividend yields		N/A			N/A			N/A
Expected lives		10 years			10 years			10 years

Summary of Stock Option Activity

The following tables summarize stock option activity during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011:

	Year Ended December 31, 2012
	Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term		Aggregate Intrinsic Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2012		546,001		$	4.54
Granted		8,000			1.80
Exercised		(3,334	)		0.90
Forfeited		(117,667	)		7.90
Outstanding at December 31, 2012		433,000			3.60		2.4 years	$	157,000
Exercisable at December 31, 2012		425,000			3.64		2.3 years	$	155,000
Options vested and expected (as of December 31, 2012) to vest in the future		433,000			3.60		2.4 years	$	157,000

	Year Ended December 31, 2011
	Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term		Aggregate Intrinsic Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2011		652,001		$	5.01
Granted		8,000			2.74
Exercised		(7,000	)		0.82
Forfeited		(107,000	)		7.54
Outstanding at December 31, 2011		546,001			4.54		2.8 years	$	202,800
Exercisable at December 31, 2011		476,801			5.01		2.7 years	$	131,000
Options vested and expected (as of December 31, 2011) to vest in the future		546,001			4.54		2.8 years	$	202,800

Summary of Share Based Compensation Option Unvested

A summary of the status of the Company’s unvested stock options as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and the changes that occurred during each of the years then ended is presented below:

	Shares			Weighted  Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested at January 1, 2012		69,200		$	0.73
Granted		8,000			1.28
Vested		(69,200	)		0.73
Forfeited		—			—
Unvested at December 31, 2012		8,000		$	1.28

	Shares			Weighted  Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested at January 1, 2011		190,100		$	1.11
Granted		8,000			1.97
Vested		(128,900	)		1.37
Forfeited		—			—
Unvested at December 31, 2011		69,200		$	0.73

Stock Options Outstanding Under Equity Incentive Plans

Set forth below is additional information with respect to the stock options that were outstanding under our equity incentive plans at December 31, 2012:

Range	Outstanding Options		Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)		Options Exercisable		Weighted Average Exercise Price
$0.63 – $4.50		236,000	$	1.66		2.9		228,000	$	1.65
$4.75 – $9.80		197,000	$	5.94		1.9		197,000	$	5.94
$0.63 – $9.80		433,000	$	3.60		2.4		425,000	$	3.64

Summary of Restricted Share Activity

A summary of restricted stock activity during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 is presented below:

	Shares			Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2012		232,501		$	4.31
Granted		147,500			2.28
Vested		(58,500	)		4.15
Forfeited		(9,000	)		3.89
Outstanding and unvested at end of year		312,501		$	3.39
	Shares			Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Values
Outstanding at January 1, 2011		177,000		$	4.15
Granted		114,500			4.47
Vested		(58,999	)		4.15
Forfeited		—			—
Outstanding and unvested at end of year		232,501		$	4.31

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Property, Plant and Equipment - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Depreciation and Other Amortization Expenses [Line Items]
Depreciation and Amortization	$ 711,000	$ 818,000	$ 753,000

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Quarterly Financial Data

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Quarterly Financial Data

NOTE M: QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA

	Quarter Ended
	March 31, 2012			June 30, 2012		September 30, 2012		December 31, 2012
	(Unaudited)
Net sales	$	24,248		$	34,115	$	34,484	$	20,674
Gross profit		3,409			5,609		5,688		2,596
Net earnings (loss)		(1,345	)		504		307		(1,480	)
Net earnings (loss) per share – diluted		(0.30	)		0.11		0.07		(0.32	)
	Quarter Ended
	March 31, 2011			June 30, 2011		September 30, 2011		December 31, 2011
	(Unaudited)
Net sales	$	24,697		$	33,218	$	31,586	$	18,694
Gross profit		3,898			6,302		5,706		2,123
Net earnings (loss)		(1,039	)		980		612		(1,439	)
Net earnings (loss) per share – diluted		(0.23	)		0.21		0.13		(0.32	)