Newmar All Star, Newmar Bay Star, Newmar Bay Star Sport, Newmar Canyon Star, Newmar Dutch Aire Dp, Newmar Dutch Star, model years 1995 to 2018. Filed by Newmar Corporation and reported to NHTSA on 15 December 2017. 34,699 vehicles potentially affected.
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.
Newmar's own number for this recall: 17E-062. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V809 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 17V809 cover?
- Newmar All Star, Newmar Bay Star, Newmar Bay Star Sport, Newmar Canyon Star, Newmar Dutch Aire DP, Newmar Dutch Star, Newmar Essex, Newmar Grand Star, model years 1995-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Newmar Corporation (Newmar) is recalling various 1995-2018 motorhomes. A list of the affected vehicles available at: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2017/RMISC-17V809-2309.pdf.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- In the event of a fire, if the fire extinguisher does not function properly, it can increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Newmar will notify owners, and instruct them to contact Kidde for a replacement fire extinguisher, free of charge. The recall began on February 7, 2018.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Newmar calls this recall 17E-062, 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 a fire, if the fire extinguisher does not function properly, it can increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V809 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Newmar Corporation |
| System at fault | Equipment |
| Reported to NHTSA | 15 December 2017 |
| Model years | 1995-2018 |
| Vehicles named | NEWMAR ALL STAR, NEWMAR BAY STAR, NEWMAR BAY STAR SPORT, NEWMAR CANYON STAR, NEWMAR DUTCH AIRE DP, NEWMAR DUTCH STAR, NEWMAR ESSEX, NEWMAR GRAND STAR, NEWMAR KING AIRE, NEWMAR KOUNTRY AIRE, NEWMAR KOUNTRY STAR, NEWMAR LONDON AIRE, NEWMAR MOUNTAIN AIRE, NEWMAR NEW AIRE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
In the event of a fire, if the fire extinguisher does not function properly, it can increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
Newmar will notify owners, and instruct them to contact Kidde for a replacement fire extinguisher, free of charge. The recall began on February 7, 2018. Owners may contact Kidde customer service toll-free at 1-855-262-3540, or online at www.kidde.com and click on "Product Safety Recall" for more information or owners may contact Newmar customer service at 1-574-773-7791. Newmar's number for this recall is 17E-062.
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.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Newmar Bay Star recalls: 22 US campaigns
- Newmar Bay Star Sport recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Newmar Canyon Star recalls: 23 US campaigns
- Newmar Dutch Aire DP recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Newmar Dutch Star recalls: 56 US campaigns
- Newmar Essex recalls: 54 US campaigns
- Newmar King Aire recalls: 39 US campaigns
- Newmar Kountry Star recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Newmar London Aire recalls: 37 US campaigns
- Newmar Mountain Aire recalls: 47 US campaigns
- Newmar New Aire recalls: 21 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 17V809, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v809/
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 Newmar notices we hold
- 26V273: 2026 Freedom Aire motorhomes
- 26V272: 2026 Freedom Aire motorhomes
- 26V108: 2018-2026 Bay Star and Bay Star Sport motorhomes
- 26V107: 2026 Freedom Aire motorhomes
- 26V015: 2026 Freedom Aire motorhomes equipped with a ThermaHeat Tank Pad
- 25V431: 2023-2024 London Aire, Essex, and 2016-2024 King Aire motorhomes
- 24V787: 2023-2025 Super Star motorhomes
- 24V301: 2022 Bay Star motorhomes
All 105 Newmar 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 17V809 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
85773e3d - Consequence
a7a67d49 - 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.
The wording we hold for 17V809 · how the whole register is watched
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