Jayco Eagle, model year 2016. Filed by Jayco, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 29 February 2016. 2,105 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Jayco, Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain model year 2016 Eagle Half Ton fifth wheels and Eagle travel trailers manufactured April 8, 2015, to February 19, 2016. In the affected trailers, the positive cable (B+) connecting the battery box to the roof-mounted solar panel preparation package may not be protected by a …
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.
Jayco's own number for this recall: 9901286. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V120 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 16V120 cover?
- Jayco Eagle, model year 2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- Jayco, Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain model year 2016 Eagle Half Ton fifth wheels and Eagle travel trailers manufactured April 8, 2015, to February 19, 2016.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Without circuit protection, the wire may short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Jayco will notify owners, and dealers will tie the unprotected circuit into a 30amp circuit breaker, free of charge. The recall began on March 18, 2016. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-283-8267. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901286.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Jayco calls this recall 9901286, 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: “Without circuit protection, the wire may short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V120 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Jayco, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:12v/24v/48v Battery:Cables |
| Reported to NHTSA | 29 February 2016 |
| Model years | 2016-2016 |
| Vehicles named | JAYCO EAGLE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Without circuit protection, the wire may short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Jayco will notify owners, and dealers will tie the unprotected circuit into a 30amp circuit breaker, free of charge. The recall began on March 18, 2016. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-283-8267. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901286.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 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 2016088, recorded 22 February 2016 (7 days before the American filing)
Matched on 9901286, 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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 16V120, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v120/
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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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 16V120 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
5902e535 - Consequence
7c8e7bbf - Remedy
07b70c68
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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