Lci Solera Smart Arm Awning, model year 9999. Filed by Lippert Components, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 2 July 2018. 14,383 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Lippert Components, Inc. (LCI) is recalling certain Solera Smart Arm Awnings. Water may enter the awning control module wiring harness and cause the awnings to partially deploy unexpectedly while the recreational vehicle is being driven.
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.
Lci's own number for this recall: 18-058-001. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18E050 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 18E050 cover?
- Lci Solera Smart Arm Awning.
- What is wrong with them?
- Lippert Components, Inc. (LCI) is recalling certain Solera Smart Arm Awnings. Water may enter the awning control module wiring harness and cause the awnings to partially deploy unexpectedly while the recreational vehicle is being driven.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the awning deploys while the vehicle is moving, it can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. LCI will notify the vehicle manufacturers that purchased the awnings and the vehicle manufacturers will conduct recalls to have their dealers replace the Solera Smart Arm controller with a new Smart Arm Controller, free of charge. The recall began August 21, 2018.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Lci calls this recall 18-058-001, 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 awning deploys while the vehicle is moving, it can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18E050 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Lippert Components, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 July 2018 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | LCI SOLERA SMART ARM AWNING |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the awning deploys while the vehicle is moving, it can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
LCI will notify the vehicle manufacturers that purchased the awnings and the vehicle manufacturers will conduct recalls to have their dealers replace the Solera Smart Arm controller with a new Smart Arm Controller, free of charge. The recall began August 21, 2018. Owners may contact LCI customer service at 1-574-538-4514. LCI's number for this recall is 18-058-001.
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
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 18E050, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18e050/
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.
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