Thor Chateau, Thor Four Winds, model years 2016 to 2017. Filed by Thor Motor Coach and reported to NHTSA on 27 September 2016. 223 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Thor Motor Coach (TMC) is recalling certain model year 2016-2017 Four Winds and Chateau motorhomes manufactured June 16, 2015, to April 29, 2016. The affected motorhomes are equipped with a spare tire bracket that may loosen and detach during vehicle operation.
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.
TMC's own number for this recall: RC000122. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V696 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 16V696 cover?
- Thor Chateau, Thor Four Winds, model years 2016-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Thor Motor Coach (TMC) is recalling certain model year 2016-2017 Four Winds and Chateau motorhomes manufactured June 16, 2015, to April 29, 2016. The affected motorhomes are equipped with a spare tire bracket that may loosen and detach during vehicle operation.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the spare tire bracket and spare tire detaches, it could be a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. TMC will notify owners, and dealers will install carriage bolts to properly secure the spare tire bracket, free of charge. The recall began on October 31, 2016. Owners may contact Thor customer service at 1-877-500-1020. TMC's number for this recall is RC000122.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Tmc calls this recall RC000122, 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 spare tire bracket and spare tire detaches, it could be a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V696 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Thor Motor Coach |
| System at fault | Tires:Temporary/Emergency Spare Tire |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 September 2016 |
| Model years | 2016-2017 |
| Vehicles named | THOR CHATEAU, THOR FOUR WINDS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the spare tire bracket and spare tire detaches, it could be a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
TMC will notify owners, and dealers will install carriage bolts to properly secure the spare tire bracket, free of charge. The recall began on October 31, 2016. Owners may contact Thor customer service at 1-877-500-1020. TMC's number for this recall is RC000122.
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 455 notices in the record whose component field names tires. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 34 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 2016473, recorded 26 September 2016 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on RC000122, 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.
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How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 16V696, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v696/
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 16V696 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
5f87c46b - Consequence
a50acdf7 - 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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