Mastercraft Boat Trailer, model year 2015. Filed by Mastercraft Boat Company Inc and reported to NHTSA on 28 April 2015. 1,740 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mastercraft Boat Company Inc (Mastercraft) is recalling certain model year 2015 boat trailers manufactured April 1, 2014, to March 11, 2015. The trailer tongue bolt may fail allowing the trailer swing tongue to disengage from the tow ball of 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.
Mastercraft's own number for this recall: RC-01 AND RC-02. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 15V253 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 15V253 cover?
- Mastercraft Boat Trailer, model year 2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mastercraft Boat Company Inc (Mastercraft) is recalling certain model year 2015 boat trailers manufactured April 1, 2014, to March 11, 2015. The trailer tongue bolt may fail allowing the trailer swing tongue to disengage from the tow ball of the vehicle.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the trailer tongue disconnects from the tow vehicle, there is an increased risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Mastercraft will notify owners, and dealers will replace the swing tongue bolt and hardware, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on May 11, 2015. Owners may contact Mastercraft customer service at 1-423-884-2221. Mastercraft's numbers for this recall are RC-01 and RC-02.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Mastercraft calls this recall RC-01 AND RC-02, 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 trailer tongue disconnects from the tow vehicle, there is an increased risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15V253 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mastercraft Boat Company Inc |
| System at fault | Trailer Hitches |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 April 2015 |
| Model years | 2015-2015 |
| Vehicles named | MASTERCRAFT BOAT TRAILER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the trailer tongue disconnects from the tow vehicle, there is an increased risk of a crash.
The remedy
Mastercraft will notify owners, and dealers will replace the swing tongue bolt and hardware, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on May 11, 2015. Owners may contact Mastercraft customer service at 1-423-884-2221. Mastercraft's numbers for this recall are RC-01 and RC-02.
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
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 15V253, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15v253/
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 15V253 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f0def5a3 - Consequence
4ae4e62b - 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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