Highland Ridge Mesa Ridge, Highland Ridge Open Range, Highland Ridge Roamer, model year 2017. Filed by Highland Ridge RV and reported to NHTSA on 17 January 2017. 396 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Highland Ridge RV (Highland) is recalling certain 2017 Open Range, Mesa Ridge and Roamer fifth wheels and travel trailers. These vehicles are equipped with an outside range that can be stored with the gas valve left open, allowing gas to enter and buildup within the vehicle.
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.
Highland's own number for this recall: 9904341. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V037 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 17V037 cover?
- Highland Ridge Mesa Ridge, Highland Ridge Open Range, Highland Ridge Roamer, model year 2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Highland Ridge RV (Highland) is recalling certain 2017 Open Range, Mesa Ridge and Roamer fifth wheels and travel trailers. These vehicles are equipped with an outside range that can be stored with the gas valve left open, allowing gas to enter and buildup within the vehicle.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If gas leaks into the cabin, it can increase the risk of an explosion or fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Highland Ridge will notify owners and dealers will install a larger gas valve handle, inspect that the drawer guide rail is in its proper location, repairing it as required, and place a warning label on the range stating the gas valve must be turned off prior to storing the range in the unit.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Highland calls this recall 9904341, 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 gas leaks into the cabin, it can increase the risk of an explosion or fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V037 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Highland Ridge RV |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 January 2017 |
| Model years | 2017-2017 |
| Vehicles named | HIGHLAND RIDGE MESA RIDGE, HIGHLAND RIDGE OPEN RANGE, HIGHLAND RIDGE ROAMER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If gas leaks into the cabin, it can increase the risk of an explosion or fire.
The remedy
Highland Ridge will notify owners and dealers will install a larger gas valve handle, inspect that the drawer guide rail is in its proper location, repairing it as required, and place a warning label on the range stating the gas valve must be turned off prior to storing the range in the unit. The recall began on March 8, 2017. Owners may contact Highland customer service at 1-260-768-7771. Highland's number for this recall is 9904341.
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 17V037, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v037/
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 Highland notices we hold
- 19V168: 2019 Mesa Ridge Lite 2804RK and Open Range Ultra Lite 2804RK travel trailers
- 16V092: model year 2015-2016 Highland Toy Hauler, Light, Mesa Ridge, and Roamer travel and fifth wheel trailers manufactured May 6, 2014, to August 31, 2015
- 16V058: model year 2015-2016 Highlander, Mesa Ridge, Roamer, and Journeyer travel trailers manufactured April 7, 2014, to January 11, 2016
- 15V238: model year 2016 Mesa Ridge, 3X, and Roamer travel trailers and fifth wheels, models 367FB, 388RKS, and 427BHS, manufactured from April 27, 2015, to May 6, 2015
- 15V209: model year 2015-2016 Roamer, Mesa Ridge, Light, 3X, and Journeyer travel and fifth wheel trailers manufactured March 6, 2015, to March 26, 2015
All 6 Highland 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 17V037 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e2909a10 - Consequence
53e02eb9 - 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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