Four Winds Chateau, Four Winds Dutchmen, Four Winds Fun Mover, Four Winds Hurricane, Four Winds Magellan, Four Winds Mandalay, model years 2008 to 2010. Filed by Thor Motor Coach and reported to NHTSA on 22 October 2012. 634 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Thor Motorcoach is recalling certain model year 2008-2010 motorhomes, manufactured June 1, 2007, through May 1, 2009 and equipped with an Iota ITS-50R Transfer Switch. The models affected are Four Winds brand models: Chateau, Dutchmen, Hurricane, Windsport, Magellan, Fun Mover, Presidio, and Mandalay. Wiring …
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.
Thor Motorcoach's own number for this recall: RC000064. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 12V516 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 12V516 cover?
- Four Winds Chateau, Four Winds Dutchmen, Four Winds Fun Mover, Four Winds Hurricane, Four Winds Magellan, Four Winds Mandalay, Four Winds Presidio, Four Winds Windsport, model years 2008-2010.
- What is wrong with them?
- Thor Motorcoach is recalling certain model year 2008-2010 motorhomes, manufactured June 1, 2007, through May 1, 2009 and equipped with an Iota ITS-50R Transfer Switch.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An overheated switch could cause it to fail and lead to a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Thor Motorcoach will notify owners and replace the Iota Transfer Switch, free of charge. The safety recall began on November 16, 2012. Owners may contact Thor at 1-877-500-1020.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Thor Motorcoach calls this recall RC000064, 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: “An overheated switch could cause it to fail and lead to a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 12V516 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Thor Motor Coach |
| System at fault | Electrical System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 22 October 2012 |
| Model years | 2008-2010 |
| Vehicles named | FOUR WINDS CHATEAU, FOUR WINDS DUTCHMEN, FOUR WINDS FUN MOVER, FOUR WINDS HURRICANE, FOUR WINDS MAGELLAN, FOUR WINDS MANDALAY, FOUR WINDS PRESIDIO, FOUR WINDS WINDSPORT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An overheated switch could cause it to fail and lead to a fire.
The remedy
Thor Motorcoach will notify owners and replace the Iota Transfer Switch, free of charge. The safety recall began on November 16, 2012. Owners may contact Thor at 1-877-500-1020.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 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 12V516, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/12v516/
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.
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 12V516 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
74b61ca6 - Consequence
fbf09d76 - 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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