Winnebago Revel, model years 2021 to 2023. Filed by Winnebago Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 21 November 2022. 4,521 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2021-2023 Revel motorhomes. The retractable awning may extend unintentionally during transit.
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: 171. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V863 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 22V863 cover?
- Winnebago Revel, model years 2021-2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2021-2023 Revel motorhomes. The retractable awning may extend unintentionally during transit.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An awning extending unintentionally during transit may become a distraction or road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install a power switch and a relay to the BT12 module, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 20, 2023. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-641-585-6939 or 1-800-537-1885. Winnebago's number for this recall is 171.
- 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 171, 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: “An awning extending unintentionally during transit may become a distraction or road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V863 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Winnebago Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Structure:Body |
| Reported to NHTSA | 21 November 2022 |
| Model years | 2021-2023 |
| Vehicles named | WINNEBAGO REVEL |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An awning extending unintentionally during transit may become a distraction or road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will install a power switch and a relay to the BT12 module, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 20, 2023. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-641-585-6939 or 1-800-537-1885. Winnebago's number for this recall is 171.
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.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
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 Winnebago notices we hold
- 26V498: 2024-2025 Ekko motorhomes
- 26V450: 2027 Navion and View recreational
- 26V385: 2026-2027 Revel and Revel Sport recreational
- 26V285: 2026-2027 Solis recreational
- 26V257: 2022-2027 Ekko motorhomes
- 26V241: 2027 Suncruiser and 2026-2027 Sunflyer motorhomes
- 26V177: 2017 Brave, 2019 Itasca Sunova, 2019-2022 Adventurer, and 2022 Sunstar motorhomes
- 26V089: 2020-2023 View and Navion recreational
All 130 Winnebago 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 22V863 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
fc4291d7 - Consequence
952013de - 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.
The wording we hold for 22V863 · how the whole register is watched
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