Thor Daybreak, Thor Motor Coach Chateau, Thor Motor Coach Chateau Citation, Thor Motor Coach Compass, Thor Motor Coach Daybreak, Thor Motor Coach Delano, model year 2020. Filed by Thor Motor Coach and reported to NHTSA on 27 May 2020. 566 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Thor Motor Coach (TMC) is recalling certain 2020 Daybreak, Four Winds, Delano, Gemini, Quantum, Tiburon, Chateau Citation, Compass, Chateau, Siesta, Freedom Elite, and Synergy motorhomes built on Mercedes-Benz Sprinter chassis [platform 907 (VS30)] equipped with automatic transmissions. The owner's manual does not …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: RC000190. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V308 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 20V308 cover?
- Thor Daybreak, Thor Motor Coach Chateau, Thor Motor Coach Chateau Citation, Thor Motor Coach Compass, Thor Motor Coach Daybreak, Thor Motor Coach Delano, Thor Motor Coach Four Winds, Thor Motor Coach Four Winds Siesta, model year 2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Thor Motor Coach (TMC) is recalling certain 2020 Daybreak, Four Winds, Delano, Gemini, Quantum, Tiburon, Chateau Citation, Compass, Chateau, Siesta, Freedom Elite, and Synergy motorhomes built on Mercedes-Benz Sprinter chassis [platform 907 (VS30)] equipped with automatic transmissions.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If a customer were to rely on the Auto-P function as described in the Operator's Manual, the possibility of a vehicle rollaway or unintended vehicle movement cannot be ruled out which could increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- TMC will notify owners, and a Mercedes Benz dealer will supplement the Operator's Manual with a correct description of the Auto-P function equipped in the vehicle. This recall began June 25, 2020. Owners may contact TMC customer service at 1-877-855-2867. TMC's number for this recall is RC000190.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall RC000190, 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 a customer were to rely on the Auto-P function as described in the Operator's Manual, the possibility of a vehicle rollaway or unintended vehicle movement cannot be ruled out which could increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V308 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Thor Motor Coach |
| System at fault | Power Train:Automatic Transmission |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 May 2020 |
| Model years | 2020-2020 |
| Vehicles named | THOR DAYBREAK, THOR MOTOR COACH CHATEAU, THOR MOTOR COACH CHATEAU CITATION, THOR MOTOR COACH COMPASS, THOR MOTOR COACH DAYBREAK, THOR MOTOR COACH DELANO, THOR MOTOR COACH FOUR WINDS, THOR MOTOR COACH FOUR WINDS SIESTA, THOR MOTOR COACH FREEDOM ELITE, THOR MOTOR COACH GEMINI, THOR MOTOR COACH QUANTUM, THOR MOTOR COACH SIESTA, THOR MOTOR COACH SYNERGY, THOR MOTOR COACH TIBURON |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If a customer were to rely on the Auto-P function as described in the Operator's Manual, the possibility of a vehicle rollaway or unintended vehicle movement cannot be ruled out which could increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
TMC will notify owners, and a Mercedes Benz dealer will supplement the Operator's Manual with a correct description of the Auto-P function equipped in the vehicle. This recall began June 25, 2020. Owners may contact TMC customer service at 1-877-855-2867. TMC's number for this recall is RC000190.
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 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Thor Daybreak recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Chateau recalls: 26 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Chateau Citation recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Compass recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Daybreak recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Delano recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Four Winds recalls: 30 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Four Winds Siesta recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Freedom Elite recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Gemini recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Quantum recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Siesta recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Synergy recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Thor Motor Coach Tiburon recalls: 4 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 20V308, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v308/
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.
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 20V308 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
0044b54f - Consequence
1ab936c1 - 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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