Winnebago Revel, model year 2021. Filed by Winnebago Industries, Inc and reported to NHTSA on 12 August 2020. 156 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Winnebago Industries, Inc (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2021 Revel motorhomes. These motorhomes have an auxiliary alternator belt that may wear and detach.
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.
Winnebago's own number for this recall: 162. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V474 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 20V474 cover?
- Winnebago Revel, model year 2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Winnebago Industries, Inc (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2021 Revel motorhomes. These motorhomes have an auxiliary alternator belt that may wear and detach.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the auxiliary alternator belt disengages, the engine serpentine belt may also disengage causing an immediate loss of power steering control increasing the risk of crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Winnebago will notify owners, and dealers will coordinate the inspection and proper alignment of the belt pulleys, free of charge. The recall began September 21, 2020. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-800-537-1885. Winnebago's number for this recall is 162.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Winnebago calls this recall 162, 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 auxiliary alternator belt disengages, the engine serpentine belt may also disengage causing an immediate loss of power steering control increasing the risk of crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V474 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Winnebago Industries, Inc |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Alternator/Generator/Regulator |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 August 2020 |
| Model years | 2021-2021 |
| Vehicles named | WINNEBAGO REVEL |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the auxiliary alternator belt disengages, the engine serpentine belt may also disengage causing an immediate loss of power steering control increasing the risk of crash.
The remedy
Winnebago will notify owners, and dealers will coordinate the inspection and proper alignment of the belt pulleys, free of charge. The recall began September 21, 2020. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-800-537-1885. Winnebago's number for this recall is 162.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 20V474, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v474/
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 20V474 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c326bc91 - Consequence
50ca213b - Remedy
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