Heartland Bighorn, Heartland Cyclone, Heartland Edge, Heartland Elkridge, Heartland Landmark 365, Heartland Road Warrior, model year 2015. Filed by Heartland Recreational Vehicles, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 3 April 2015. 1,691 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Heartland Recreational Vehicles, LLC (Heartland) is recalling certain model year 2015 Bighorn, Cyclone, Edge, Elkridge, Landmark 365, Road Warrior, and Torque fifth wheel and travel trailers. In the affected vehicles, a rivet for the quad entry steps may shear and fail, causing the steps to give when being used.
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: 99-01-20. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 15V198 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 15V198 cover?
- Heartland Bighorn, Heartland Cyclone, Heartland Edge, Heartland Elkridge, Heartland Landmark 365, Heartland Road Warrior, Heartland Torque, model year 2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Heartland Recreational Vehicles, LLC (Heartland) is recalling certain model year 2015 Bighorn, Cyclone, Edge, Elkridge, Landmark 365, Road Warrior, and Torque fifth wheel and travel trailers.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the rivet shears causing the quad step to fail, the step user may fall, increasing the risk of personal injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Heartland has notified owners, and dealers will replace the defective rivets with bolts, free of charge. The recall began on April 13, 2015. Owners may contact Heartland customer service at 1-877-262-8032. Heartland's number for this recall is 99-01-20.
- 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 99-01-20, 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: “If the rivet shears causing the quad step to fail, the step user may fall, increasing the risk of personal injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15V198 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Heartland Recreational Vehicles, LLC |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 3 April 2015 |
| Model years | 2015-2015 |
| Vehicles named | HEARTLAND BIGHORN, HEARTLAND CYCLONE, HEARTLAND EDGE, HEARTLAND ELKRIDGE, HEARTLAND LANDMARK 365, HEARTLAND ROAD WARRIOR, HEARTLAND TORQUE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the rivet shears causing the quad step to fail, the step user may fall, increasing the risk of personal injury.
The remedy
Heartland has notified owners, and dealers will replace the defective rivets with bolts, free of charge. The recall began on April 13, 2015. Owners may contact Heartland customer service at 1-877-262-8032. Heartland's number for this recall is 99-01-20.
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 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 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 2015141, recorded 1 April 2015 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 990120, 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 Bighorn recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Heartland Cyclone recalls: 15 US campaigns
- Heartland Edge recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Heartland Elkridge recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Heartland Landmark 365 recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Heartland Road Warrior recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Heartland Torque recalls: 12 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 15V198, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15v198/
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.
Other Heartland notices we hold
- 25V304: 2024-2025 Cyclone fifth wheels, equipped with a removable step assembly
- 24V605: 2024-2025 Torque travel trailers, equipped with optional Onan 5
- 24V315: 2024 Eddie Bauer travel trailers
- 24V018: 2024 Corterra fifth wheels
- 22V305: 2022 Sundance trailers
- 22V294: 2022 Heartland Fuel travel trailers
- 22V199: 2021-2022 North Trail trailers
- 22V170: 2022 Lithium, Prowler, and Trail Runner travel trailers, equipped with a 50-amp shore power inlet
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 15V198 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
cd162eb7 - Consequence
8df518f3 - 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 15V198 · how the whole register is watched
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Heartland Landmark 365, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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