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RV RECALLS AND SERVICE BULLETINS

How to find out whether your RV, or something fitted to it, has been recalled, and where the manufacturer service bulletins are kept.

Check your own unit

Start with the federal lookup. It takes a VIN, or a year, a make and a model, and returns the recalls, complaints and investigations filed against that unit. Two makers run their own lookup as well.

Recalls you can read in full

The campaign number is the thread through a recall: the federal report, the maker's own notice and any repair instruction all carry it.

Service bulletins

A recall is a safety defect. A service bulletin is the maker telling its dealers how to deal with something, and the federal government collects them alongside the recalls. Almost nobody in the RV world links them.

Appliances and components

The fridge, the water heater, the generator and the portable heater are consumer products before they are RV parts, so they are recalled through a different agency.

Canada

Canadian recalls run as their own campaigns, with their own numbers.

Manufacturer communications in the federal filetop 15 makes

Counted from the file below, for 2025 to 2026. It holds 769,391 records in total, most of them cars, and RV manufacturers account for 2,063 of them. These are the makes with the most filed, 2,032 between them.

MakeFiled
Forest River409
Tiffin281
Forest River Bus261
Brinkley RV157
Newmar152
Coachmen148
Keystone117
Winnebago116
Jayco101
Grand Design78
Thor Motor Coach73
Holiday Rambler50
East to West47
Dynamax25
KZ RV17

Counted from TSBS_RECEIVED_2025-2026.zip at static.nhtsa.gov on 2026-09-21, by make, from the 769,391 records in the file.

Why the bulletin file is worth knowing about

The federal system that holds recalls also holds every manufacturer communication, which is where a maker explains a problem to its dealers before it becomes a recall, or when it never does. The RV makers file them in the thousands, and nothing on the consumer side indexes them by make and model.

Reading one takes two steps: find the document id in the file, then open the bulletin itself at a link built from that id. The ids are not guessable, so start from the file rather than from a pattern.