Gulf Stream Cruiser Vn23bhs, model year 2018. Filed by Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 26 May 2017. 7 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. (Gulf Stream) is recalling certain 2018 Vintage Cruiser travel trailers, model VN23BHS. The Federal Certification Label overstates the capacity of each axle by 700lbs. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of 49 CFR Part 567, "Certification."
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.
Gulf Stream's own number for this recall: GS2500517. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V343 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 17V343 cover?
- Gulf Stream Cruiser Vn23Bhs, model year 2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. (Gulf Stream) is recalling certain 2018 Vintage Cruiser travel trailers, model VN23BHS. The Federal Certification Label overstates the capacity of each axle by 700lbs. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of 49 CFR Part 567, "Certification."
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The incorrect information can cause the vehicle to be overloaded or result in axle failure, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Gulf Stream will notify owners and will mail them a corrected Federal Certification Label, free of charge. The recall began on June 26, 2017. Owners may contact Gulf Stream customer service at 1-800-289-8787. Gulf Stream's number for this recall is GS2500517.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Gulf Stream calls this recall GS2500517, 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: “The incorrect information can cause the vehicle to be overloaded or result in axle failure, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V343 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Other:Labels |
| Reported to NHTSA | 26 May 2017 |
| Model years | 2018-2018 |
| Vehicles named | GULF STREAM CRUISER VN23BHS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The incorrect information can cause the vehicle to be overloaded or result in axle failure, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Gulf Stream will notify owners and will mail them a corrected Federal Certification Label, free of charge. The recall began on June 26, 2017. Owners may contact Gulf Stream customer service at 1-800-289-8787. Gulf Stream's number for this recall is GS2500517.
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 17V343, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v343/
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 Gulf Stream notices we hold
- 26V010: 2026 Trail Boss and Ameri-Lite trailers
- 24V067: 2024 Trail Boss 160FK trailers
- 23V742: 2024 Conquest, Independence, Trailmaster, Friendship, and Ameri-Lite, model 177BH, travel trailers
- 23V231: 2023-2024 Conquest and BT Cruiser Class C Mini Motor Homes
- 21V343: 2021 Vista Cruiser, Vintage Cruiser, Gulf Breeze, Matrix, Streamlite, Northern Express, Envision, and Geo travel trailers
- 20V532: 2021 Enlighten 25BH travel trailers
- 20V531: 2020 Enlighten 25BH and 248BH travel trailers
- 19V783: 2020 Amerilite, Conquest, Innsbruck, Grand River, Kingsport and Trail Master trailers
All 26 Gulf Stream 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 17V343 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e3a9e421 - Consequence
767b751d - 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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