Multiquip Wt5c, model year 2019. Filed by Multiquip, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 16 January 2020. 119 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Multiquip, Inc. (Multiquip) is recalling certain 2019 WT5C trailers. The connection points for the safety chain are incorrect.
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.
Multiquip's own number for this recall: WT20191031. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V021 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 20V021 cover?
- Multiquip Wt5C, model year 2019.
- What is wrong with them?
- Multiquip, Inc. (Multiquip) is recalling certain 2019 WT5C trailers. The connection points for the safety chain are incorrect.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The incorrect attachment points may result in the safety chains being too short, possibly interfering with steerability of the tow vehicle and increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Multiquip will notify owners, and dealers will relocate the mounting position of safety chains, free of charge. The recall began January 24, 2020. Owners may contact Multiquip customer service at 1-800-421-1244. Multiquip's number for this recall is WT20191031.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Multiquip calls this recall WT20191031, 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 incorrect attachment points may result in the safety chains being too short, possibly interfering with steerability of the tow vehicle and increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V021 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Multiquip, Inc. |
| System at fault | Trailer Hitches |
| Reported to NHTSA | 16 January 2020 |
| Model years | 2019-2019 |
| Vehicles named | MULTIQUIP WT5C |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The incorrect attachment points may result in the safety chains being too short, possibly interfering with steerability of the tow vehicle and increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Multiquip will notify owners, and dealers will relocate the mounting position of safety chains, free of charge. The recall began January 24, 2020. Owners may contact Multiquip customer service at 1-800-421-1244. Multiquip's number for this recall is WT20191031.
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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 20V021, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v021/
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 Multiquip notices we hold
- 24V768: 2010-2016 TRLR-55348, 2012-2015 TRLR-55164, and 2013 TRLR-57615 trailers
- 24V660: 2024 WTE5C and WTE5HP trailers
- 18V649: 2018 Water trailers, models WTE5C and WTE5HP
- 18V466: 2018 Multiquip TRLR45H and TRLR70USH trailers
All 5 Multiquip 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 20V021 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f66c7ef7 - Consequence
b64e92a3 - Remedy
63bce11a
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.
The wording we hold for 20V021 · how the whole register is watched
Put this notice on your site
A small badge that links here and names the register's reference. It costs one line of HTML and needs no key.
The badge is free to use. It links to this page and nowhere else, and it never shows advertising.
Owners of these cars
No register publishes what happens after the letter. Owners do: tell us, in two taps.
Anonymous: no account, no cookie, nothing you type is stored beyond these choices. Figures appear once 3 owners have answered, and are published with the record under CC BY 4.0.