Keystone Passport, model years 2016 to 2017. Filed by Keystone RV Company and reported to NHTSA on 11 May 2016. 21 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Keystone RV Company (Keystone) is recalling certain model year 2016-2017 Passport recreational trailers, model 3350BHWE, manufactured January 6, 2016, to April 21, 2016. These trailers were built with axles that have a 3500 pound capacity instead of being built with axles that have a 4400 pound capacity.
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: 16-252. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V291 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 16V291 cover?
- Keystone Passport, model years 2016-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Keystone RV Company (Keystone) is recalling certain model year 2016-2017 Passport recreational trailers, model 3350BHWE, manufactured January 6, 2016, to April 21, 2016.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the vehicle is loaded to the specifications listed, the incorrect axle may be overloaded and fail as a result, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Keystone has notified owners, and dealers will replace the axle, free of charge. The recall began May 16, 2016. Owners may contact Keystone customer service at 1-866-425-4369. Keystone's number for this recall is 16-252.
- 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 16-252, 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 vehicle is loaded to the specifications listed, the incorrect axle may be overloaded and fail as a result, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V291 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Keystone RV Company |
| System at fault | Suspension:Rear:Axle:Non-Powered Axle Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 11 May 2016 |
| Model years | 2016-2017 |
| Vehicles named | KEYSTONE PASSPORT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the vehicle is loaded to the specifications listed, the incorrect axle may be overloaded and fail as a result, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Keystone has notified owners, and dealers will replace the axle, free of charge. The recall began May 16, 2016. Owners may contact Keystone customer service at 1-866-425-4369. Keystone's number for this recall is 16-252.
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 732 notices in the record whose component field names suspension. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 33 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 2016212, recorded 12 May 2016 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 16252, 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 16V291, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v291/
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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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 16V291 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c747ede0 - Consequence
b14e3be1 - 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 16V291 · how the whole register is watched
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