U-Haul Power Tow Towing Starter Kit Ts1, model year 9999. Filed by Curt Manufacturing LLC and reported to NHTSA on 7 May 2015. 134,155 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says CURT Manufacturing LLC (CURT) is recalling certain U-Haul Power Tow Towing Starter Kits, part number TS1, manufactured July 1, 2014, to January 31, 2015. The ball mount tongue in the affected products may break at the bend if the trailer being towed is loaded to the ball mounts maximum rating.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 15E035 cover?
- U-Haul Power Tow Towing Starter Kit TS1.
- What is wrong with them?
- CURT Manufacturing LLC (CURT) is recalling certain U-Haul Power Tow Towing Starter Kits, part number TS1, manufactured July 1, 2014, to January 31, 2015. The ball mount tongue in the affected products may break at the bend if the trailer being towed is loaded to the ball mounts maximum rating.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the ball mount tongue breaks, the trailer may disengage from the tow vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. CURT will notify owners and will replace the ball mount assemblies, free of charge. The recall began on June 18, 2015. Owners may contact CURT customer service at 1-844-770-6145.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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: “If the ball mount tongue breaks, the trailer may disengage from the tow vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15E035 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Curt Manufacturing LLC |
| System at fault | Trailer Hitches |
| Reported to NHTSA | 7 May 2015 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | U-HAUL POWER TOW TOWING STARTER KIT TS1 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the ball mount tongue breaks, the trailer may disengage from the tow vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
CURT will notify owners and will replace the ball mount assemblies, free of charge. The recall began on June 18, 2015. Owners may contact CURT customer service at 1-844-770-6145.
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 142 notices in the record whose component field names trailer hitches. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 32 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 15E035, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15e035/
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.
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Other Curt notices we hold
- 17E051: Class 1 trailer hitches, part number 11451, sold for installation on 2016-2018 Mini Cooper Clubman and Countryman
- 15E037: U-Haul Power Tow Towing Starter Kits, part number TS2, manufactured July 1, 2014, to January 31, 2015
All 3 Curt 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 15E035 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
83552190 - Consequence
7afb0457 - Remedy
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