Tiffin Allegro Open Road, model years 2013 to 2018. Filed by Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 17 May 2018. 5,871 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc. (Tiffin) is recalling certain 2013-2018 Allegro Open Road motorhomes. Insufficient strength of the frame rail may allow the tow hitch to detach from the motorhome.
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.
Tiffin's own number for this recall: TIF-109. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V328 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 18V328 cover?
- Tiffin Allegro Open Road, model years 2013-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc. (Tiffin) is recalling certain 2013-2018 Allegro Open Road motorhomes. Insufficient strength of the frame rail may allow the tow hitch to detach from the motorhome.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the hitch detaches, the tow vehicle would not be connected to the motorhome, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Tiffin will notify owners, and dealers will install an insert plate to strengthen the frame rail, free of charge. Tiffin issued owners an interim notification on May 31, 2018. The recall began on July 24, 2018. Owners may contact Tiffin customer service at 1-256-356-8661.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Tiffin calls this recall TIF-109, 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 hitch detaches, the tow vehicle would not be connected to the motorhome, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V328 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc. |
| System at fault | Trailer Hitches |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 May 2018 |
| Model years | 2013-2018 |
| Vehicles named | TIFFIN ALLEGRO OPEN ROAD |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the hitch detaches, the tow vehicle would not be connected to the motorhome, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Tiffin will notify owners, and dealers will install an insert plate to strengthen the frame rail, free of charge. Tiffin issued owners an interim notification on May 31, 2018. The recall began on July 24, 2018. Owners may contact Tiffin customer service at 1-256-356-8661. Tiffin's number for this recall is TIF-109. Note: Some vehicles already remedied as part of recall 17V200 will need the additional repairs covered by this recall.
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 142 notices in the record whose component field names trailer hitches. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 32 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 18V328, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v328/
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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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 18V328 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
2322ac32 - Consequence
309c4e49 - 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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