Gulf Stream Ameri-Lite, Gulf Stream Trail Boss, model year 2026. Filed by Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 15 January 2026. 172 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. (Gulf Stream) is recalling certain 2026 Trail Boss and Ameri-Lite trailers. Wires in the taillight harness may be reversed, causing the turn signals to activate in the opposite direction as the driver intended. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor …
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V010 cover?
- Gulf Stream Ameri-Lite, Gulf Stream Trail Boss, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. (Gulf Stream) is recalling certain 2026 Trail Boss and Ameri-Lite trailers. Wires in the taillight harness may be reversed, causing the turn signals to activate in the opposite direction as the driver intended.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Turn signals that fail to indicate the driver's intention to change direction increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to tow their trailers until the repair has been completed. Dealers will rewire the turn signals, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 21, 2026. Owners may contact Gulf Stream customer service at 1-800-289-8787.
- 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: “Turn signals that fail to indicate the driver's intention to change direction increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V010 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Turn Signal |
| Reported to NHTSA | 15 January 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | GULF STREAM AMERI-LITE, GULF STREAM TRAIL BOSS |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The defect
Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. (Gulf Stream) is recalling certain 2026 Trail Boss and Ameri-Lite trailers. Wires in the taillight harness may be reversed, causing the turn signals to activate in the opposite direction as the driver intended. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
The consequence
Turn signals that fail to indicate the driver's intention to change direction increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to tow their trailers until the repair has been completed. Dealers will rewire the turn signals, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 21, 2026. Owners may contact Gulf Stream customer service at 1-800-289-8787. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning January 31, 2026.
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 2bb833630b2a0acb72eacdb6a1aa0a46…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V010, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v010/
The copy quoted above hashes to 2bb833630b2a0acb72eacdb6a1aa0a46…. 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 Gulf Stream notices we hold
- 24V067: 2024 Trail Boss 160FK trailers
- 23V742: 2024 Conquest, Independence, Trailmaster, Friendship, and Ameri-Lite, model 177BH, travel trailers
- 23V231: 2023-2024 Conquest and BT Cruiser Class C Mini Motor Homes
- 21V343: 2021 Vista Cruiser, Vintage Cruiser, Gulf Breeze, Matrix, Streamlite, Northern Express, Envision, and Geo travel trailers
- 20V532: 2021 Enlighten 25BH travel trailers
- 20V531: 2020 Enlighten 25BH and 248BH travel trailers
- 19V783: 2020 Amerilite, Conquest, Innsbruck, Grand River, Kingsport and Trail Master trailers
- 19V560: 2017 Serro Scotty S14 RBR travel trailers
All 26 Gulf Stream 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 26V010 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
282605f6 - Consequence
77b4ed9f - 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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