Keystone Montana, model year 2026. Filed by Keystone RV Company and reported to NHTSA on 18 March 2026. 74 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Keystone RV Company (Keystone) is recalling certain 2026 Montana fifth wheel recreational trailers. The 12-volt and 120-volt wiring may be improperly secured. The wires may be pinched and damaged when the bedroom slide-out moves.
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.
Keystone's own number for this recall: 26-480. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V161 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 26V161 cover?
- Keystone Montana, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Keystone RV Company (Keystone) is recalling certain 2026 Montana fifth wheel recreational trailers. The 12-volt and 120-volt wiring may be improperly secured. The wires may be pinched and damaged when the bedroom slide-out moves.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Damaged wiring may cause an electrical fault, increasing the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will properly secure the wiring, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed May 14, 2026. Owners may contact Keystone customer service at 1-866-425-4369. Keystone's number for this recall is 26-480.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Keystone calls this recall 26-480, 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: “Damaged wiring may cause an electrical fault, increasing the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V161 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Keystone RV Company |
| System at fault | Electrical System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 18 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | KEYSTONE MONTANA |
What the notice says today
The defect
Keystone RV Company (Keystone) is recalling certain 2026 Montana fifth wheel recreational trailers. The 12-volt and 120-volt wiring may be improperly secured. The wires may be pinched and damaged when the bedroom slide-out moves.
The consequence
Damaged wiring may cause an electrical fault, increasing the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Dealers will properly secure the wiring, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed May 14, 2026. Owners may contact Keystone customer service at 1-866-425-4369. Keystone's number for this recall is 26-480. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning May 15, 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 65c74d5f5bf73ac35095d06f6e4afefd…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2026127, recorded 18 March 2026 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 26480, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
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 26V161, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v161/
The copy quoted above hashes to 65c74d5f5bf73ac35095d06f6e4afefd…. 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 Keystone notices we hold
- 26V313: 2024 Cougar, 2025-2026 Alpine, 2026 Montana, and Walkabout recreational trailers
- 26V211: 2026 Montana fifth wheel recreational trailers
- 26V045: 2026 Coleman travel trailers
- 26V026: 2025-2026 Fuzion, Raptor, Redwood, and 2024-2026 Voltage travel trailers
- 25V844: 2026 Impact and Carbon recreational trailers equipped with 3000 series patio rail kits
- 25V771: 2024-2026 Voltage recreational trailers
- 25V547: 2026 Springdale and Hideout travel trailers
- 25V384: 2025 Carbon, Fuzion, and Raptor toy hauler recreational trailers
All 170 Keystone 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 26V161 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
aede05b3 - Consequence
2554b71b - 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 26V161 · how the whole register is watched
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