Keystone Alpine, Keystone Avalanche, Keystone Laredo, model years 2014 to 2016. Filed by Keystone RV Company and reported to NHTSA on 10 August 2015. 405 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Keystone RV Company (Keystone) is recalling certain model year 2014-2015 Keystone Avalanche recreational vehicles, model 355RK, manufactured from May 6, 2013, through April 24, 2014; model year 2015-2016 Keystone Alpine, models 3100RL, 3101RL, 3555RL, 3556RL, 3590RS, 3591RS, 3600RS, 3601RS, and 3730RS, manufactured …
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.
Keystone's own number for this recall: 15-233. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 15V499 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 15V499 cover?
- Keystone Alpine, Keystone Avalanche, Keystone Laredo, model years 2014-2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- Keystone RV Company (Keystone) is recalling certain model year 2014-2015 Keystone Avalanche recreational vehicles, model 355RK, manufactured from May 6, 2013, through April 24, 2014; model year 2015-2016 Keystone Alpine, models 3100RL, 3101RL, 3555RL, 3556RL, 3590RS, 3591RS, 3600RS, 3601RS, and...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- In the event of an emergency, occupants could try to escape through the rear window, but would not be able to. This delay in their escape may increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Keystone has notified owners, and dealers will remove the emergency exit sticker, free of charge. The recall began on August 17, 2015. Owners may contact Keystone customer service at 1-866-425-4369. Keystone's number for this recall is 15-233.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Keystone calls this recall 15-233, 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: “In the event of an emergency, occupants could try to escape through the rear window, but would not be able to. This delay in their escape may increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15V499 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Keystone RV Company |
| System at fault | Structure:Emergency:Escape/Egress/Exit |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 August 2015 |
| Model years | 2014-2016 |
| Vehicles named | KEYSTONE ALPINE, KEYSTONE AVALANCHE, KEYSTONE LAREDO |
What the notice says today
The consequence
In the event of an emergency, occupants could try to escape through the rear window, but would not be able to. This delay in their escape may increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
Keystone has notified owners, and dealers will remove the emergency exit sticker, free of charge. The recall began on August 17, 2015. Owners may contact Keystone customer service at 1-866-425-4369. Keystone's number for this recall is 15-233.
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 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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 2015353, recorded 5 August 2015 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 15233, 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
- Keystone Alpine recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Keystone Avalanche recalls: 17 US campaigns
- Keystone Laredo recalls: 16 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 15V499, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15v499/
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 Keystone notices we hold
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- 26V045: 2026 Coleman travel trailers
- 26V026: 2025-2026 Fuzion, Raptor, Redwood, and 2024-2026 Voltage travel trailers
- 25V844: 2026 Impact and Carbon recreational trailers equipped with 3000 series patio rail kits
- 25V771: 2024-2026 Voltage recreational trailers
- 25V547: 2026 Springdale and Hideout travel trailers
All 170 Keystone 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 15V499 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
19a0cd4e - Consequence
fabff754 - 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 15V499 · how the whole register is watched
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