Jayco Fifth Wheel Seismic, model year 2026. Filed by Jayco, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 4 September 2025. 75 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Jayco, Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain 2026 Seismic fifth wheel travel trailers. The certification label lists an incorrect Gross Axle Weight Rating (GAWR). As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of 49 CFR Part 567, "Certification."
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.
Jayco's own number for this recall: 9901638. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V578 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 25V578 cover?
- Jayco Fifth Wheel Seismic, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Jayco, Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain 2026 Seismic fifth wheel travel trailers. The certification label lists an incorrect Gross Axle Weight Rating (GAWR). As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of 49 CFR Part 567, "Certification."
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The trailer may be accidentally overloaded after referencing the incorrect information, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Jayco will mail corrected labels, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed September 23, 2023. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-283-8267. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901638.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Jayco calls this recall 9901638, 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: “The trailer may be accidentally overloaded after referencing the incorrect information, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V578 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Jayco, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Other:Labels |
| Reported to NHTSA | 4 September 2025 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | JAYCO FIFTH WHEEL SEISMIC |
What the notice says today
The defect
Jayco, Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain 2026 Seismic fifth wheel travel trailers. The certification label lists an incorrect Gross Axle Weight Rating (GAWR). As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of 49 CFR Part 567, "Certification."
The consequence
The trailer may be accidentally overloaded after referencing the incorrect information, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Jayco will mail corrected labels, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed September 23, 2023. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-283-8267. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901638.
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 c4894a719251827bcadd9decd4ca6a82…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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.
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 25V578, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v578/
The copy quoted above hashes to c4894a719251827bcadd9decd4ca6a82…. 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 Jayco notices we hold
- 26V552: 2027 Heartland Bighorn recreational trailers
- 26V518: 2027 Jayco Eagle, Eagle SLE, and Heartland Sundance fifth wheel trailers
- 26V484: 2025 Entegra Reatta XL, Reatta, 2026 Cornerstone Reserve, 2024-2026 Cornerstone, Aspire, and Anthem motorhomes built on certain Spartan K1, K2, and K4 chassis
- 26V483: 2026 Entegra Anthem motorhomes
- 26V427: 2026 Heartland Cyclone travel trailers and Cyclone fifth wheel trailers
- 26V426: 2026 Seismic fifth toy haulers
- 26V416: 2027 Entegra Accolade and Jayco Seneca motorhomes
- 26V411: 2024 Jayco Alante and Entegra Vision recreational
All 207 Jayco 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 25V578 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
b9942dea - Consequence
7e85108c - 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 25V578 · how the whole register is watched
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