Great Dane Champion, model years 2024 to 2025. Filed by Great Dane Trailers and reported to NHTSA on 9 December 2025. 3 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Great Dane Trailers (Great Dane) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Champion trailers. The cylinder pin in the slide liftgate may be insufficiently lubricated, which can cause the pin to seize, resulting in lift gate failure.
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.
Great Dane's own number for this recall: 25E-025. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V848 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 25V848 cover?
- Great Dane Champion, model years 2024-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Great Dane Trailers (Great Dane) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Champion trailers. The cylinder pin in the slide liftgate may be insufficiently lubricated, which can cause the pin to seize, resulting in lift gate failure.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A lift gate that fails during operation increases the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Great Dane will work with Hiab to replace the lift gate cylinder pins, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 28, 2026. Owners may contact Great Dane's 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. Great Dane calls this recall 25E-025, 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 lift gate that fails during operation increases the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V848 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Great Dane Trailers |
| System at fault | Structure:Body:Hatchback/Liftgate |
| Reported to NHTSA | 9 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2024-2025 |
| Vehicles named | GREAT DANE CHAMPION |
What the notice says today
The defect
Great Dane Trailers (Great Dane) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Champion trailers. The cylinder pin in the slide liftgate may be insufficiently lubricated, which can cause the pin to seize, resulting in lift gate failure.
The consequence
A lift gate that fails during operation increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Great Dane will work with Hiab to replace the lift gate cylinder pins, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 28, 2026. Owners may contact Great Dane's 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 8aa2290ae507df93f5c51ec34515b04f…, 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 25V848, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v848/
The copy quoted above hashes to 8aa2290ae507df93f5c51ec34515b04f…. 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
- 25V429: 2026 Champion dry van 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 25V848 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
267cc34e - Consequence
f591b323 - 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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