Thor Motor Coach Chateau, Thor Motor Coach Four Winds, Thor Motor Coach Freedom Elite, Thor Motor Coach Majestic, Thor Motor Coach Outlaw, Thor Motor Coach Quantum, model year 2019. Filed by Thor Motor Coach and reported to NHTSA on 8 June 2018. 691 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Thor Motor Coach (TMC) is recalling certain 2019 Thor Four Winds, Chateau, Freedom Elite, Majestic, Outlaw, Quantum and Vegas motorhomes built on modified Ford E-450 chassis. The U-bolts on the rear axle that hold the leaf spring and rear axle together may have been insufficiently tightened.
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.
TMC's own number for this recall: RC000156. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V385 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 18V385 cover?
- Thor Motor Coach Chateau, Thor Motor Coach Four Winds, Thor Motor Coach Freedom Elite, Thor Motor Coach Majestic, Thor Motor Coach Outlaw, Thor Motor Coach Quantum, Thor Motor Coach Vegas, model year 2019.
- What is wrong with them?
- Thor Motor Coach (TMC) is recalling certain 2019 Thor Four Winds, Chateau, Freedom Elite, Majestic, Outlaw, Quantum and Vegas motorhomes built on modified Ford E-450 chassis. The U-bolts on the rear axle that hold the leaf spring and rear axle together may have been insufficiently tightened.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The loose U-bolts may further loosen or break allowing the axle to separate and cause a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. TMC has notified owners, and dealers will tighten U-bolts to the proper torque, free of charge. The recall began on June 22, 2018. Owners may contact TMC customer service at 1-877-855-2867. TMC's number for this recall is RC000156.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Tmc calls this recall RC000156, 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 loose U-bolts may further loosen or break allowing the axle to separate and cause a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V385 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Thor Motor Coach |
| System at fault | Suspension:Rear:Springs:Leaf Spring Assembly:U-Bolt, Leaf Spring To Axle |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 June 2018 |
| Model years | 2019-2019 |
| Vehicles named | THOR MOTOR COACH CHATEAU, THOR MOTOR COACH FOUR WINDS, THOR MOTOR COACH FREEDOM ELITE, THOR MOTOR COACH MAJESTIC, THOR MOTOR COACH OUTLAW, THOR MOTOR COACH QUANTUM, THOR MOTOR COACH VEGAS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The loose U-bolts may further loosen or break allowing the axle to separate and cause a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
TMC has notified owners, and dealers will tighten U-bolts to the proper torque, free of charge. The recall began on June 22, 2018. Owners may contact TMC customer service at 1-877-855-2867. TMC's number for this recall is RC000156.
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 732 notices in the record whose component field names suspension. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 33 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Thor Motor Coach Chateau recalls: 26 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Four Winds recalls: 30 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Freedom Elite recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Majestic recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Outlaw recalls: 22 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Quantum recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Vegas recalls: 12 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 18V385, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v385/
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 18V385 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
1ef9d254 - Consequence
92ad1fb1 - 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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