Heartland Big Country, Heartland Big Horn, Heartland Landmark 365, model year 2015. Filed by Heartland Recreational Vehicles, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 30 January 2015. 131 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Heartland Recreational Vehicles, LLC (Heartland) is recalling certain model year 2015 Heartland Big Country 3800FL vehicles manufactured October 22, 2014, to December 16, 2014 and 2015 Heartland Big Country 3900FLP vehicles manufactured September 23, 2014, to January 12, 2015, 2015 Heartland Big Horn 3750FL vehicles …
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.
Heartland's own number for this recall: 99-01-19. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 15V049 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 15V049 cover?
- Heartland Big Country, Heartland Big Horn, Heartland Landmark 365, model year 2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Heartland Recreational Vehicles, LLC (Heartland) is recalling certain model year 2015 Heartland Big Country 3800FL vehicles manufactured October 22, 2014, to December 16, 2014 and 2015 Heartland Big Country 3900FLP vehicles manufactured September 23, 2014, to January 12, 2015, 2015 Heartland Big...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Improper weight distribution across the axles may result in poor handling, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Heartland will notify owners, and dealers will move the axles rearward to help with weight distribution on the Big Horn, and 3800 FL Big Country, and will add a ballast to the pin box to improve handling the 3900 FLP Big Country, free of charge. The recall began February 16, 2015.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Heartland calls this recall 99-01-19, 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: “Improper weight distribution across the axles may result in poor handling, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15V049 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Heartland Recreational Vehicles, LLC |
| System at fault | Suspension:Rear:Axle:Non-Powered Axle Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 30 January 2015 |
| Model years | 2015-2015 |
| Vehicles named | HEARTLAND BIG COUNTRY, HEARTLAND BIG HORN, HEARTLAND LANDMARK 365 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Improper weight distribution across the axles may result in poor handling, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Heartland will notify owners, and dealers will move the axles rearward to help with weight distribution on the Big Horn, and 3800 FL Big Country, and will add a ballast to the pin box to improve handling the 3900 FLP Big Country, free of charge. The recall began February 16, 2015. Owners may contact Heartland customer service at 1-877-262-8032. Heartland's number for this recall is 99-01-19.
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 732 notices in the record whose component field names suspension. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 33 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2015046, recorded 30 January 2015 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 990119, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Heartland Big Country recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Heartland Big Horn recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Heartland Landmark 365 recalls: 4 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 15V049, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15v049/
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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All 60 Heartland 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 15V049 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8f0768bc - Consequence
d32f8bcd - 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.
The wording we hold for 15V049 · how the whole register is watched
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