Jayco Jay Flight Slx, model years 2016 to 2018. Filed by Jayco, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 3 November 2017. 9,930 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Jayco, Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain 2016-2018 Jay Flight SLX recreational trailers equipped with a 35 amp power converter. The electrical circuit from the battery does not have overcurrent protection such as a fuse or circuit breaker.
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.
Jayco's own number for this recall: 9901362. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V696 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 17V696 cover?
- Jayco Jay Flight SLX, model years 2016-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Jayco, Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain 2016-2018 Jay Flight SLX recreational trailers equipped with a 35 amp power converter. The electrical circuit from the battery does not have overcurrent protection such as a fuse or circuit breaker.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- In the event of an electrical short, the unprotected circuit increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Jayco will notify owners, and dealers will install a fuse harness assembly with a circuit breaker for overcurrent protection, free of charge. The recall began on December 20, 2017. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-283-8267. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901362.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Jayco calls this recall 9901362, 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: “In the event of an electrical short, the unprotected circuit increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V696 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Jayco, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:12v/24v/48v Battery |
| Reported to NHTSA | 3 November 2017 |
| Model years | 2016-2018 |
| Vehicles named | JAYCO JAY FLIGHT SLX |
What the notice says today
The consequence
In the event of an electrical short, the unprotected circuit increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Jayco will notify owners, and dealers will install a fuse harness assembly with a circuit breaker for overcurrent protection, free of charge. The recall began on December 20, 2017. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-283-8267. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901362.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 17V696, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v696/
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.
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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 17V696 on 23 August 2026, they were:
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