Owners of this vehicle were written to on 19 August 2026. The remedy was reworded on 26 August 2026, 7 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Both versions are shown on this page. Back to the campaign.
This is an independent copy of the official notice, kept so you can see what changed. CarsMultiverse is not a safety authority: to act on this recall, use the authority’s own version at NHTSA, or the official register for your country (linked at the foot of this page).
Between 26 August 2026, 00:17 UTC and 26 August 2026, 07:32 UTC, the text of the remedy (what the manufacturer will do about it) on campaign 26V480, filed by Midwest, was replaced. The authority publishes one version at a time. This is both.
What changed
6 words were removed and 3 were added.
Removed from the earlier version
Added in the version now published
Both versions in full
As we read it on 26 August 2026
Owners are advised not to tow their trailer until the repair has been completed. Dealer will replace the trailer tongue, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 22, 2026. Owners may contact Midwest customer service at 1-800-859-3028.
As we read it on 26 August 2026
Owners are advised not to tow their trailer until the repair has been completed. Dealer will replace the trailer tongue, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 19, 2026. Owners may contact Midwest customer service at 1-800-859-3028.
Sealed
The version now published is fingerprinted, and that fingerprint is folded into a single number we publish once a day and cannot quietly recompute. It was fixed before you read this page. Follow the path below and you arrive at the seal we had already published: how the seal works.
The wording we publish for 26V480 is one of 1,485 notices sealed on 17 September 2026.
- Fingerprint of this notice
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- Seal published that day
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This notice still matches the seal published on that date.
The audit path, 11 steps
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Cite this version
CarsMultiverse (A.I.T. Multiverse Consulting Ltd). "Midwest rewrote the remedy on recall 26V480, 26 August 2026." https://carsmultiverse.com/changed/26v480-remedy-2026-08-26/ Sealed 17 September 2026. Notice fingerprint b785f3395956f42e7c651a357b3910e75986887994c8ee7c74c87a5492723ff8. Seal e7c86f595a518db997256229171466dd7bf6a65da9fae34f5cb501b24189fd88.
If this is your car
The fix itself was reworded. If this recall has already been carried out on your vehicle, it was carried out to whatever the instruction said at the time. If it has not been, book it - the repair is free either way.
A notice being edited is not by itself evidence of anything. Wording is corrected for ordinary reasons as well as significant ones, and we record that it changed without claiming to know why.
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