Fontaine Revolution, model years 2015 to 2017. Filed by Fontaine Trailer Company and reported to NHTSA on 1 July 2016. 1,106 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Fontaine Trailer Company (Fontaine) is recalling certain model year 2015-2017 Revolution trailers manufactured February 17, 2014, to April 11, 2016, equipped with certain Bendix SR5 spring brake valves. These brake valves were improperly machined without a radius on the internal check valve seat, causing a delay of …
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Fontaine's own number for this recall: BENDIX 16E-045. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V494 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 16V494 cover?
- Fontaine Revolution, model years 2015-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Fontaine Trailer Company (Fontaine) is recalling certain model year 2015-2017 Revolution trailers manufactured February 17, 2014, to April 11, 2016, equipped with certain Bendix SR5 spring brake valves.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If there is a delay of the spring brake application, the trailer may roll away after it has decoupled from the tractor, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Fontaine will contact owners and Bendix will provide a remedy kit, complete with instructions, to repair any affected SR-5 trailer relay valves, free of charge. The recall began on August 22, 2016. Owners may contact Fontaine Customer Service Department at 1-800-821-6535.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Fontaine calls this recall BENDIX 16E-045, 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 there is a delay of the spring brake application, the trailer may roll away after it has decoupled from the tractor, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V494 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Fontaine Trailer Company |
| System at fault | Parking Brake |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 July 2016 |
| Model years | 2015-2017 |
| Vehicles named | FONTAINE REVOLUTION |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If there is a delay of the spring brake application, the trailer may roll away after it has decoupled from the tractor, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Fontaine will contact owners and Bendix will provide a remedy kit, complete with instructions, to repair any affected SR-5 trailer relay valves, free of charge. The recall began on August 22, 2016. Owners may contact Fontaine Customer Service Department at 1-800-821-6535. Fontaine's number for this recall is Bendix 16E-045.
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 175 notices in the record whose component field names parking brake. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 49 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 16V494, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v494/
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.
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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 16V494 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
48c44127 - Consequence
b2a869e3 - 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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