Trail King Dolly Trailer, model years 2016 to 2018. Filed by Trail King Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 27 July 2018. 46 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Trail King Industries, Inc. (Trail King) is recalling certain 2016-2018 Trail King Dolly trailers. The dolly frame channel may crack near the center cross members.
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.
Trail King's own number for this recall: TK201801. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V495 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 18V495 cover?
- Trail King Dolly Trailer, model years 2016-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Trail King Industries, Inc. (Trail King) is recalling certain 2016-2018 Trail King Dolly trailers. The dolly frame channel may crack near the center cross members.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the frame channel cracks completely it can cause the frame rail to separate, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Trail King has notified owners, and dealers will reinforce the frame channel to prevent cracking, free of charge. The recall began August 15, 2018. Owners may contact Trail King customer service at 1-800-843-3324. Trail King's number for this recall is TK201801.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Trail King calls this recall TK201801, 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 frame channel cracks completely it can cause the frame rail to separate, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V495 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Trail King Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Structure:Frame And Members |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 July 2018 |
| Model years | 2016-2018 |
| Vehicles named | TRAIL KING DOLLY TRAILER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the frame channel cracks completely it can cause the frame rail to separate, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Trail King has notified owners, and dealers will reinforce the frame channel to prevent cracking, free of charge. The recall began August 15, 2018. Owners may contact Trail King customer service at 1-800-843-3324. Trail King's number for this recall is TK201801.
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 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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 18V495, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v495/
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 Trail King notices we hold
- 24V866: 2020-2024 TKHT Hydraulic Tail trailers
- 24V670: 2019-2020 TKHDG Paver Special trailers
- 23V578: 1992-2023 TKFA, TKPA, AB, and AB EXT trailers equipped with pin-on axles or pivot extensions
- 21V813: 2015-2020 TK70AACS, TK80AACS, TK85ACS, and AACS-38 trailers
- 21V713: 2019 TK80ACS and TK80AACS trailers
- 21V541: 2018-2020 TKOLB332NG-HH, TKOLB336NG, TKOLB336NG-HH, TKOLB434NG-HH, and TKOLB436NG-HH
- 21V092: 2021 TKSA trailers
- 21V066: 2019-2021 TKHDG, TKAMG, TKAHG, TKHG, TKMG, TKMB, and TKLPSD trailers equipped with disc brakes and a yoke-type suspension
All 16 Trail King 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 18V495 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e2fe826a - Consequence
9483fffc - 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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