Escape Escape 17, Escape Escape 19, Escape Escape 21, Escape Escape 5.0, model year 2025. Filed by Escape Trailer Industries Ltd. and reported to NHTSA on 5 March 2026. 324 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Escape Trailer Industries LTD. (Escape Trailer) is recalling certain 2025 E17, E19, E21, E5.0 recreational trailers. The spare tire carrier may have incorrect welding, causing the carrier to detach from the trailer during transit.
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 26V132 cover?
- Escape Escape 17, Escape Escape 19, Escape Escape 21, Escape Escape 5.0, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Escape Trailer Industries LTD. (Escape Trailer) is recalling certain 2025 E17, E19, E21, E5.0 recreational trailers. The spare tire carrier may have incorrect welding, causing the carrier to detach from the trailer during transit.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A detached carrier can become a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the spare tire carriers, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed March 2026. Owners may contact Escape Trailer customer service at 1-604-703-1650.
- 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 detached carrier can become a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V132 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | ESCAPE TRAILER INDUSTRIES LTD. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Mechanical:Spare Tire Mount/Rack |
| Reported to NHTSA | 5 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | ESCAPE ESCAPE 17, ESCAPE ESCAPE 19, ESCAPE ESCAPE 21, ESCAPE ESCAPE 5.0 |
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
Escape Trailer Industries LTD. (Escape Trailer) is recalling certain 2025 E17, E19, E21, E5.0 recreational trailers. The spare tire carrier may have incorrect welding, causing the carrier to detach from the trailer during transit.
The consequence
A detached carrier can become a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the spare tire carriers, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed March 2026. Owners may contact Escape Trailer customer service at 1-604-703-1650. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on March 9, 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 9131143939824e0350e8514b1b8fccb8…, 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
- Escape Escape 17 recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Escape Escape 19 recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Escape Escape 21 recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Escape Escape 5.0 recalls: 4 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 26V132, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v132/
The copy quoted above hashes to 9131143939824e0350e8514b1b8fccb8…. 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 Escape notices we hold
- 24V624: 2024 Escape 17, 19, 21, 23, and 5
- 22V388: 2018-2021 Escape 17, 19, 21, and 5
- 22V387: 2021-2022 Escape 17, 19, 21, and 5
- 21V666: 2019 E17A, E17B, E19, E21C, E21NE, and E5
- 20V809: 2020 19, 21C, 21NE and 5
All 6 Escape 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 26V132 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
220165cb - Consequence
a5b84e9f - 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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