Highland Ridge Open Range, model years 2016 to 2017. Filed by Highland Ridge RV and reported to NHTSA on 1 February 2017. 148 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Highland Ridge RV (Highland Ridge) is recalling certain 2016-2017 Open Range fifth-wheel vehicles. The axle hangers on the affected vehicles may puncture the riser tube wall, allowing the axle to shift and become misaligned.
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 Ridge FW's own number for this recall: 9904343. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V065 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 17V065 cover?
- Highland Ridge Open Range, model years 2016-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Highland Ridge RV (Highland Ridge) is recalling certain 2016-2017 Open Range fifth-wheel vehicles. The axle hangers on the affected vehicles may puncture the riser tube wall, allowing the axle to shift and become misaligned.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the axle shifts and becomes misaligned the tires may wear irregularly and possibly fail, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Highland Ridge will notify owners, and dealers will weld on new hangers, free of charge. The recall began on March 29, 2017. Owners may contact Highland Ridge customer service at 1-260-768-7771. Highland Ridge's number for this recall is 9904343.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Highland Ridge FW calls this recall 9904343, 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 axle shifts and becomes misaligned the tires may wear irregularly and possibly fail, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V065 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Highland Ridge RV |
| System at fault | Suspension:Rear:Axle:Non-Powered Axle Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 February 2017 |
| Model years | 2016-2017 |
| Vehicles named | HIGHLAND RIDGE OPEN RANGE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the axle shifts and becomes misaligned the tires may wear irregularly and possibly fail, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Highland Ridge will notify owners, and dealers will weld on new hangers, free of charge. The recall began on March 29, 2017. Owners may contact Highland Ridge customer service at 1-260-768-7771. Highland Ridge's number for this recall is 9904343.
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 732 notices in the record whose component field names suspension. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 33 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 17V065, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v065/
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 Ridge FW notices we hold
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- 24V299: 2022-2023 Mesa Ridge TT, Mesa Ridge XLT FW, Open Range Roamer FW, Open Range TT, Silverstar TT, and Silverstar XLT FW trailers
- 23V548: 2023-2024 Highland Ridge Range Lite Air travel trailers
- 22V775: 2021-2022 Highland Ridge Olympia, Olympia Sport, Open Range and Open Range Lite travel trailers
- 22V303: 2021-2022 Mesa Ridge, Mesa Ridge XLT, Mesa Ridge S-Lite, Open Range, Open Range Roamer, and Open Range Lite fifth wheel and travel trailers
- 22V057: 2022 Olympia, and Olympia Sport recreational
- 21V764: 2021 Highland Ridge Open Range recreational trailers
All 19 Highland Ridge FW 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 17V065 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
2200d09d - Consequence
935f1e73 - 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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