How to read a recall notice: campaign IDs, remedy, and how this site labels inherited and equipment recalls

Key facts

• An NHTSA campaign number such as 21V523000 has a two digit year, a letter for the type, and a sequence.
• The remedy text on this site is quoted from the official notice. This site never paraphrases repair instructions.
• Canadian notices are separate records with their own IDs and are never merged into U.S. campaigns.
• This site currently links 800 U.S. campaigns and 293 Canadian notices to the RV families it covers.

The campaign number

Take 21V523000. The first two digits, 21, are the year the campaign was opened. The letter says what kind of product the recall covers: V for a vehicle, E for equipment, T for a tire, C for a child seat. The rest, 523000, is the sequence number NHTSA assigned. Use the full number when you search on NHTSA's own site or call a dealer.

The manufacturer also assigns its own campaign number. It is shown as a separate field and is the number a dealer often uses.

Two dates that are easy to confuse

The report received date is the day the manufacturer's defect report reached NHTSA. The owner notification date is when the manufacturer sent letters to owners. They are usually different, and either can be weeks after the defect was found. This site groups campaigns by the report received date and shows both dates when the record has them.

The remedy

The remedy is what the manufacturer says it will do at no charge, such as inspect or replace a part. On this site the remedy text is quoted from the official notice, marked as a quote, and linked to the source. This site does not paraphrase repair instructions, because a small change in wording can change what is safe to do. Follow the official notice and your dealer.

Own, inherited and equipment labels

• Own means the recall was filed under the RV brand's name for that model year.
• Inherited from chassis means the coach is mapped to a chassis in our reference table (reference/chassis.csv) from a recall notice, and the chassis maker filed the recall for the same model year. The defect is in the chassis, not necessarily the coach body.
• Equipment means an equipment recall linked to the RV by a reviewed rule, for example a part fitted to many trailers.

Of the 800 campaigns in this report, 693 are own, 106 are inherited and 1 is equipment.

Canadian notices

Transport Canada publishes its own recall notices with their own numbers. We show them next to U.S. records for the same family but never merge them. A U.S. campaign and a Canadian notice about the same defect stay as two records.

Complaints

Complaints come from owners and are unverified. NHTSA does not confirm them. This site counts and quotes them with personal details removed. It gives no rate per unit sold and no score, because the sales counts needed for a fair rate are not available.

Method and limits

• Data comes from NHTSA flat files released September 19, 2026 (2026-09-19) and from the Transport Canada recall database.
• Matching a record to an RV family uses a reviewed alias list, so a small number of records may be missed or mis-assigned. Use the correction link on any page to report one.
• The absence of a recall in this dataset does not establish that a vehicle is safe.

NHTSA records released through September 19, 2026; Transport Canada records through September 19, 2026.