Storyteller Overland Gxv Hilt, model years 2024 to 2026. Filed by Storyteller Overland and reported to NHTSA on 24 March 2026. 74 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Storyteller Overland, LLC (Storyteller) is recalling certain 2024-2026 GXV Hilt recreational vehicles. The entry door position switch may not make adequate contact to read that the door is closed, which allows the steps to deploy unexpectedly.
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 26V183 cover?
- Storyteller Overland GXV Hilt, model years 2024-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Storyteller Overland, LLC (Storyteller) is recalling certain 2024-2026 GXV Hilt recreational vehicles. The entry door position switch may not make adequate contact to read that the door is closed, which allows the steps to deploy unexpectedly.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Steps extending while in transit increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install a ground signal to the door switch circuit, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 29, 2026. Owners may contact Storyteller customer service at 1-888-999-7442.
- 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: “Steps extending while in transit increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V183 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Storyteller Overland |
| System at fault | Electrical System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2024-2026 |
| Vehicles named | STORYTELLER OVERLAND GXV HILT |
What the notice says today
The defect
Storyteller Overland, LLC (Storyteller) is recalling certain 2024-2026 GXV Hilt recreational vehicles. The entry door position switch may not make adequate contact to read that the door is closed, which allows the steps to deploy unexpectedly.
The consequence
Steps extending while in transit increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will install a ground signal to the door switch circuit, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 29, 2026. Owners may contact Storyteller customer service at 1-888-999-7442.
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 1edf0d3b753821d550af9d5bdc7bbaf6…, 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 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 26V183, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v183/
The copy quoted above hashes to 1edf0d3b753821d550af9d5bdc7bbaf6…. 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 Storyteller Overland notices we hold
- 26V392: 2024-2026 GXV Hilt
- 26V274: 2023 Stealth, Classic, and Beast Mode
- 25V588: 2024-2026 GXV Hilt recreational
- 25V498: 2023 Mode LT recreational
- 25V070: 2024-2025 MODE XO
- 22V770: 2022-2023 Storyteller Mode LT motorhomes
All 7 Storyteller Overland 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 26V183 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
32d312b7 - Consequence
66f0b1b3 - 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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