Wilson Cd-1080, Wilson Dwh-550, model year 2015. Filed by Wilson Trailer Company and reported to NHTSA on 1 July 2016. 10 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Wilson Trailer Company (Wilson) is recalling certain model year 2015 DWH-550, and CD-1080 trailers manufactured November 20, 2015, equipped with certain Bendix SR5 spring brake valves. These valves may have been improperly machined which may cause a delay of application of the spring brakes while parking.
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.
Wilson's own number for this recall: 132P. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V496 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 16V496 cover?
- Wilson Cd-1080, Wilson Dwh-550, model year 2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Wilson Trailer Company (Wilson) is recalling certain model year 2015 DWH-550, and CD-1080 trailers manufactured November 20, 2015, 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?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Wilson will contact owners and provide a remedy kit, complete with instructions, to repair any affected SR-5 trailer relay valves, free of charge. Wilson issued an interim notification to owners on August 18, 2016. The recall began on August 26, 2016.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Wilson calls this recall 132P, 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 | 16V496 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Wilson Trailer Company |
| System at fault | Parking Brake |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 July 2016 |
| Model years | 2015-2015 |
| Vehicles named | WILSON CD-1080, WILSON DWH-550 |
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
Wilson will contact owners and provide a remedy kit, complete with instructions, to repair any affected SR-5 trailer relay valves, free of charge. Wilson issued an interim notification to owners on August 18, 2016. The recall began on August 26, 2016. Owners may contact Wilson Customer Service Department at 1-800-798-2002. Wilson's number for this recall is 132P.
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.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 16V496, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v496/
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 Wilson notices we hold
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- 19V266: 2019-2020 Punch Side Gooseneck Livestock trailers
- 16E056: Peter Paul 22X01031GM 12/DC solenoid valves manufactured May 1, 2015, to July 30, 2015
- 15V440: model year 2006-2015 Grain trailers manufactured January 1, 2006, to March 31, 2015
- 14V492: model year 2014-2015 Grain and Livestock trailers manufactured September 20, 2013, to July 18, 2014, and equipped with certain Pivot Bolts Part Number 93201070
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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 16V496 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
4f835a38 - 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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