Escape Rv Escape, model year 2020. Filed by Escape Trailer and reported to NHTSA on 22 December 2020. 294 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Escape Trailer is recalling certain 2020 19, 21C, 21NE and 5.0 RV trailers equipped with Dometic 3 burner cooking stoves. The stove's saddle valve securing bolt may be overtightened, possibly damaging the O-ring seal and causing a continuous gas leak.
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.
Escape's own number for this recall: E012020. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V809 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 20V809 cover?
- Escape RV Escape, model year 2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Escape Trailer is recalling certain 2020 19, 21C, 21NE and 5.0 RV trailers equipped with Dometic 3 burner cooking stoves. The stove's saddle valve securing bolt may be overtightened, possibly damaging the O-ring seal and causing a continuous gas leak.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A gas leak can increase the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Escape Trailer will notify owners, instructing them to visit a Dometic repair center that will install a remedy kit of gaskets, washers, thread locker bolts, and two round orange labels, free of charge. The recall began March 17, 2021.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Escape calls this recall E012020, 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: “A gas leak can increase the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V809 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Escape Trailer |
| System at fault | Equipment:Appliance:Oven/Stove/Cooktop |
| Reported to NHTSA | 22 December 2020 |
| Model years | 2020-2020 |
| Vehicles named | ESCAPE RV ESCAPE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A gas leak can increase the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Escape Trailer will notify owners, instructing them to visit a Dometic repair center that will install a remedy kit of gaskets, washers, thread locker bolts, and two round orange labels, free of charge. The recall began March 17, 2021. Owners may contact Escape Trailer customer service at 1-604-703-1650. Escape Trailer's number for this recall is E012020.
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 20V809, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v809/
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 Escape notices we hold
- 26V132: 2025 E17, E19, E21, E5
- 24V624: 2024 Escape 17, 19, 21, 23, and 5
- 22V388: 2018-2021 Escape 17, 19, 21, and 5
- 22V387: 2021-2022 Escape 17, 19, 21, and 5
- 21V666: 2019 E17A, E17B, E19, E21C, E21NE, and E5
All 6 Escape 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 20V809 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
d6d71f5b - Consequence
387e837b - 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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