Winnebago 425 Commercial Shell, Winnebago Commercial Vehicle, Winnebago Minnie Winnie, Winnebago Navion, Winnebago Spirit, Winnebago Sunflyer, model years 2021 to 2027. Filed by Winnebago Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 16 January 2026. 3,045 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2024-2026 Spirit, Minnie Winnie, Travato, View, Navion, and 2026-2027 Sunflyer, 2021-2026 Commercial vehicle, and 2023-2026 425 Commercial shell motorhomes equipped with a ThermaHeat Tank Pad. The water tank heating pad may experience high resistance and fail.
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: 201. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V016 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 26V016 cover?
- Winnebago 425 Commercial Shell, Winnebago Commercial Vehicle, Winnebago Minnie Winnie, Winnebago Navion, Winnebago Spirit, Winnebago Sunflyer, Winnebago Travato, Winnebago View, model years 2021-2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2024-2026 Spirit, Minnie Winnie, Travato, View, Navion, and 2026-2027 Sunflyer, 2021-2026 Commercial vehicle, and 2023-2026 425 Commercial shell motorhomes equipped with a ThermaHeat Tank Pad.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A heating pad failure can increase the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install a new water tank heating pad, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 16, 2026. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-641-585-6939 or 1-800-537-1885. Winnebago's number for this recall is 201.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 201, 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 heating pad failure can increase the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V016 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Winnebago Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer:Plumbing:Freeze Prevention Heater |
| Reported to NHTSA | 16 January 2026 |
| Model years | 2021-2027 |
| Vehicles named | WINNEBAGO 425 COMMERCIAL SHELL, WINNEBAGO COMMERCIAL VEHICLE, WINNEBAGO MINNIE WINNIE, WINNEBAGO NAVION, WINNEBAGO SPIRIT, WINNEBAGO SUNFLYER, WINNEBAGO TRAVATO, WINNEBAGO VIEW |
What the notice says today
The defect
Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2024-2026 Spirit, Minnie Winnie, Travato, View, Navion, and 2026-2027 Sunflyer, 2021-2026 Commercial vehicle, and 2023-2026 425 Commercial shell motorhomes equipped with a ThermaHeat Tank Pad. The water tank heating pad may experience high resistance and fail.
The consequence
A heating pad failure can increase the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Dealers will install a new water tank heating pad, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 16, 2026. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-641-585-6939 or 1-800-537-1885. Winnebago's number for this recall is 201.
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 f6040fb31d6313c4e4dc81f03729e3eb…, 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
- Winnebago Commercial Vehicle recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Winnebago Minnie Winnie recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Winnebago Navion recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Winnebago Spirit recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Winnebago Travato recalls: 18 US campaigns
- Winnebago View recalls: 25 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V016, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v016/
The copy quoted above hashes to f6040fb31d6313c4e4dc81f03729e3eb…. 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.
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 26V016 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
b37482b3 - Consequence
a1c8a5b4 - 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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