Highland Ridge Highlander, Highland Ridge Journeyer, Highland Ridge Mesa Ridge, Highland Ridge Roamer, model years 2015 to 2016. Filed by Highland Ridge RV and reported to NHTSA on 2 February 2016. 239 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Highland Ridge RV (Highland) is recalling certain model year 2015-2016 Highlander, Mesa Ridge, Roamer, and Journeyer travel trailers manufactured April 7, 2014, to January 11, 2016. The affected vehicles are equipped with safety chains on the A-frame that are rated for 11,700lb instead of being rated equal to or …
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.
Highland's own number for this recall: 9904277. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V058 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 16V058 cover?
- Highland Ridge Highlander, Highland Ridge Journeyer, Highland Ridge Mesa Ridge, Highland Ridge Roamer, model years 2015-2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- Highland Ridge RV (Highland) is recalling certain model year 2015-2016 Highlander, Mesa Ridge, Roamer, and Journeyer travel trailers manufactured April 7, 2014, to January 11, 2016.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- In the event the main trailer connection fails, the weight of the trailer can break the safety chains if the chains are not strong enough, allowing the trailer to separate from the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Highland will notify owners, and dealers will replace the existing safety chains with chains that have a 16,200lb rating, free of charge. The recall began on February 25, 2016. Owners may contact Highland customer service at 1-260-768-7771. Highland's number for this recall is 9904277.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Highland calls this recall 9904277, 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 the main trailer connection fails, the weight of the trailer can break the safety chains if the chains are not strong enough, allowing the trailer to separate from the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V058 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Highland Ridge RV |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 February 2016 |
| Model years | 2015-2016 |
| Vehicles named | HIGHLAND RIDGE HIGHLANDER, HIGHLAND RIDGE JOURNEYER, HIGHLAND RIDGE MESA RIDGE, HIGHLAND RIDGE ROAMER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
In the event the main trailer connection fails, the weight of the trailer can break the safety chains if the chains are not strong enough, allowing the trailer to separate from the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Highland will notify owners, and dealers will replace the existing safety chains with chains that have a 16,200lb rating, free of charge. The recall began on February 25, 2016. Owners may contact Highland customer service at 1-260-768-7771. Highland's number for this recall is 9904277.
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 2016056, recorded 4 February 2016 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 9904277, 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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 16V058, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v058/
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 Highland notices we hold
- 19V168: 2019 Mesa Ridge Lite 2804RK and Open Range Ultra Lite 2804RK travel trailers
- 17V037: 2017 Open Range, Mesa Ridge and Roamer fifth wheels and travel trailers
- 16V092: model year 2015-2016 Highland Toy Hauler, Light, Mesa Ridge, and Roamer travel and fifth wheel trailers manufactured May 6, 2014, to August 31, 2015
- 15V238: model year 2016 Mesa Ridge, 3X, and Roamer travel trailers and fifth wheels, models 367FB, 388RKS, and 427BHS, manufactured from April 27, 2015, to May 6, 2015
- 15V209: model year 2015-2016 Roamer, Mesa Ridge, Light, 3X, and Journeyer travel and fifth wheel trailers manufactured March 6, 2015, to March 26, 2015
All 6 Highland 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 16V058 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
dec36452 - Consequence
e11bbd34 - 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 16V058 · how the whole register is watched
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