Great Dane Champion, model year 2026. Filed by Great Dane Trailers and reported to NHTSA on 26 June 2025. 444 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Great Dane Trailers (Great Dane) is recalling certain 2026 Champion dry van trailers. The roll-up door operator bolts may not have been properly tightened and increasing the force required to open or close the door.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 25V429 cover?
- Great Dane Champion, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Great Dane Trailers (Great Dane) is recalling certain 2026 Champion dry van trailers. The roll-up door operator bolts may not have been properly tightened and increasing the force required to open or close the door.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A roll-up door that sticks and requires greater force to open or close may move too fast, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will tighten the operator bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 15, 2025. Owners may contact Great Dane customer service at 1-877-369-3493.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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 roll-up door that sticks and requires greater force to open or close may move too fast, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V429 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Great Dane Trailers |
| System at fault | Structure:Body:Door |
| Reported to NHTSA | 26 June 2025 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | GREAT DANE CHAMPION |
What the notice says today
The defect
Great Dane Trailers (Great Dane) is recalling certain 2026 Champion dry van trailers. The roll-up door operator bolts may not have been properly tightened and increasing the force required to open or close the door.
The consequence
A roll-up door that sticks and requires greater force to open or close may move too fast, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will tighten the operator bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 15, 2025. Owners may contact Great Dane customer service at 1-877-369-3493.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 10e00b53d0f4dac89bea46411bba06b3…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V429, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v429/
The copy quoted above hashes to 10e00b53d0f4dac89bea46411bba06b3…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 Great Dane notices we hold
- 26V465: 2027 Champion dry van trailers The trailers may have been produced without the installation of the rear impact guard extension channels
- 26V383: 2026 Champion dry van trailers
- 25V848: 2024-2025 Champion trailers
- 25V200: 2025-2026 Champion Dry Van trailers equipped with Bridgestone R123 Ecopia tires, size 295/75R22
- 24V922: 2025 Champion Dry Freight trailers
- 24V689: 2025 Champion Dry Van trailers
- 24V637: 2025 Everest SS refrigerated trailers
- 23V852: 2023 Champion trailers
All 38 Great Dane 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 25V429 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
1fff2f4d - Consequence
dd89efa9 - Remedy
70b3bc02
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 25V429 · how the whole register is watched
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Great Dane Champion, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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.