Keystone Cougar, model years 2010 to 2012. Filed by Keystone Rv Company and reported to NHTSA on 26 July 2012. 1,012 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Keystone RV Company (Keystone) is recalling certain model year 2010-2012 Cougar 26SAB and 29RES recreational vehicles manufactured from October 5, 2009, through October 24, 2011. The rear bumper, which holds the spare tire assembly, may experience metal fatigue causing the spare tire to separate from the vehicle.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Keystone's own number for this recall: 12-178. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 12V355 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 12V355 cover?
- Keystone Cougar, model years 2010-2012.
- What is wrong with them?
- Keystone RV Company (Keystone) is recalling certain model year 2010-2012 Cougar 26SAB and 29RES recreational vehicles manufactured from October 5, 2009, through October 24, 2011.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Over time, the bumper may fail and/or separate from the vehicle, increasing the risk of personal injury and property damage.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Keystone will notify owners, and dealers will install a reinforcement kit free of charge. The safety recall began on September 28, 2012. Owners may contact Keystone at 1-866-425-4369.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Keystone calls this recall 12-178, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Over time, the bumper may fail and/or separate from the vehicle, increasing the risk of personal injury and property damage.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 12V355 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | KEYSTONE RV COMPANY |
| System at fault | Structure:Body:Bumpers |
| Reported to NHTSA | 26 July 2012 |
| Model years | 2010-2012 |
| Vehicles named | KEYSTONE COUGAR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Over time, the bumper may fail and/or separate from the vehicle, increasing the risk of personal injury and property damage.
The remedy
Keystone will notify owners, and dealers will install a reinforcement kit free of charge. The safety recall began on September 28, 2012. Owners may contact Keystone at 1-866-425-4369.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 12V355, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/12v355/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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- 26V161: 2026 Montana fifth wheel recreational trailers
- 26V045: 2026 Coleman travel trailers
- 26V026: 2025-2026 Fuzion, Raptor, Redwood, and 2024-2026 Voltage travel trailers
- 25V844: 2026 Impact and Carbon recreational trailers equipped with 3000 series patio rail kits
- 25V771: 2024-2026 Voltage recreational trailers
- 25V547: 2026 Springdale and Hideout travel trailers
All 170 Keystone campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 12V355 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6486650b - Consequence
a8f4b87c - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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