Jayco Octane, model year 2018. Filed by Jayco, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 11 July 2018. 62 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Jayco Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain 2018 Jayco Octane travel trailers, models VH and VF, equipped with an optional generator. During production, the generator exhaust pipe may not have been installed, allowing the generator's exhaust to enter the trailer.
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: 9901406. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V460 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 18V460 cover?
- Jayco Octane, model year 2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Jayco Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain 2018 Jayco Octane travel trailers, models VH and VF, equipped with an optional generator. During production, the generator exhaust pipe may not have been installed, allowing the generator's exhaust to enter the trailer.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If exhaust were to enter the trailer, it can increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Jayco has notifed owners, and dealers will install any missing generator exhaust pipes, free of charge. The recall began on July 24, 2018. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-517-9137. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901406.
- 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 9901406, 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 exhaust were to enter the trailer, it can increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V460 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Jayco, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 11 July 2018 |
| Model years | 2018-2018 |
| Vehicles named | JAYCO OCTANE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If exhaust were to enter the trailer, it can increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
Jayco has notifed owners, and dealers will install any missing generator exhaust pipes, free of charge. The recall began on July 24, 2018. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-517-9137. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901406.
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
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CarsMultiverse, recall 18V460, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v460/
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 18V460 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
98ab00b4 - Consequence
6e140a62 - 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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