Lippert Power Tongue Jack, model year 9999. Filed by Lippert Components, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 15 December 2017. 12,584 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Lippert Components, Inc. (Lippert) is recalling certain Power Tongue Jacks, Smart Jack model 426514. These jacks are operated with a laminated plastic touch pad which can crack or separate allowing water to enter and cause the jack to automatically retract or extend without warning.
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.
Lippert's own number for this recall: 2017-045-001. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17E074 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 17E074 cover?
- Lippert Power Tongue Jack.
- What is wrong with them?
- Lippert Components, Inc. (Lippert) is recalling certain Power Tongue Jacks, Smart Jack model 426514. These jacks are operated with a laminated plastic touch pad which can crack or separate allowing water to enter and cause the jack to automatically retract or extend without warning.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the jack retracts or extend unintentionally, it can increase the risk of injury to those within the trailer or increase the risk of a crash if the jack moves while the trailer is being towed.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Lippert will notify purchasers of the jacks and will replace the SMART Jack Power Tongue Jack, free of charge. The recall began on January 5, 2018. Owners may contact Lippert Customer Service at 1-574-538-4514 or via email recall@lci1.com . Lipperts number for this recall is 2017-045-001.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Lippert calls this recall 2017-045-001, 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 jack retracts or extend unintentionally, it can increase the risk of injury to those within the trailer or increase the risk of a crash if the jack moves while the trailer is being towed.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17E074 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Lippert Components, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Mechanical:Integrated Jack/Leveler/Stabilizer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 15 December 2017 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | LIPPERT POWER TONGUE JACK |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the jack retracts or extend unintentionally, it can increase the risk of injury to those within the trailer or increase the risk of a crash if the jack moves while the trailer is being towed.
The remedy
Lippert will notify purchasers of the jacks and will replace the SMART Jack Power Tongue Jack, free of charge. The recall began on January 5, 2018. Owners may contact Lippert Customer Service at 1-574-538-4514 or via email recall@lci1.com . Lipperts number for this recall is 2017-045-001.
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.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 17E074, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17e074/
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 17E074 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
39cec0ef - Consequence
7323cda9 - 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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