Starcraft Launch Ultra Lite, model year 2016. Filed by Starcraft RV and reported to NHTSA on 30 March 2016. 26 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Starcraft RV (Starcraft) is recalling certain model year 2016 Launch Ultra Lite trailers, model 31BHT, manufactured June 23, 2015, to September 29, 2015. The entry steps may have been installed without using the proper bolts, possibly resulting in the steps loosening or separating from the trailer.
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.
Starcraft's own number for this recall: 9902292. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V180 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 16V180 cover?
- Starcraft Launch Ultra Lite, model year 2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- Starcraft RV (Starcraft) is recalling certain model year 2016 Launch Ultra Lite trailers, model 31BHT, manufactured June 23, 2015, to September 29, 2015. The entry steps may have been installed without using the proper bolts, possibly resulting in the steps loosening or separating from the trailer.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Loose steps or steps that drop when weight is applied may cause the user to fall, increasing their risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Starcraft will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the step installation, correcting the mounting as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on April 25, 2016. Owners may contact Starcraft customer service at 1-800-945-4787. Starcraft's number for this recall is 9902292.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Starcraft calls this recall 9902292, 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: “Loose steps or steps that drop when weight is applied may cause the user to fall, increasing their risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V180 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Starcraft RV |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 30 March 2016 |
| Model years | 2016-2016 |
| Vehicles named | STARCRAFT LAUNCH ULTRA LITE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Loose steps or steps that drop when weight is applied may cause the user to fall, increasing their risk of injury.
The remedy
Starcraft will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the step installation, correcting the mounting as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on April 25, 2016. Owners may contact Starcraft customer service at 1-800-945-4787. Starcraft's number for this recall is 9902292.
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 2016136, recorded 29 March 2016 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 9902292, 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 16V180, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v180/
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 16V180 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
b2415b29 - Consequence
7b27d848 - 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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