Trails West Rpm Freeride, model year 2027. Filed by Trails West Manufacturing of Idaho, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 22 April 2026. 55 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Trails West Manufacturing of Idaho, Inc. (Trails West) is recalling certain 2027 RPM Freeride recreational trailers. The cooktop flame may become inverted when the furnace is operating.
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 26V259 cover?
- Trails West RPM Freeride, model year 2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Trails West Manufacturing of Idaho, Inc. (Trails West) is recalling certain 2027 RPM Freeride recreational trailers. The cooktop flame may become inverted when the furnace is operating.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An inverted cooktop flame increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install an aluminum separation between the furnace and the cooktop, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 30, 2026. Owners may contact Trails West customer service at 1-208-852-2200.
- 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: “An inverted cooktop flame increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V259 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Trails West Manufacturing of Idaho, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Appliance:Oven/Stove/Cooktop |
| Reported to NHTSA | 22 April 2026 |
| Model years | 2027-2027 |
| Vehicles named | TRAILS WEST RPM FREERIDE |
What the notice says today
The defect
Trails West Manufacturing of Idaho, Inc. (Trails West) is recalling certain 2027 RPM Freeride recreational trailers. The cooktop flame may become inverted when the furnace is operating.
The consequence
An inverted cooktop flame increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Dealers will install an aluminum separation between the furnace and the cooktop, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 30, 2026. Owners may contact Trails West customer service at 1-208-852-2200. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on April 22, 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 cd0b94d9d6cedf5e5b4d2b17661861d7…, 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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V259, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v259/
The copy quoted above hashes to cd0b94d9d6cedf5e5b4d2b17661861d7…. 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 Trails West notices we hold
- 22V026: 2017-2021 Sierra, Classic, Santa Fe, and Freeride trailers equipped with Winntec model 6020 two-stage propane regulators
- 21V429: one 2020 Sierra 4H 15x19 LQ trailersequipped with Dometic 3-burner cooking stoves
- 14V021: model year 2010-2014 RPM bumper pull recreational trailers manufactured October 2009 through January 2014 and equipped with a Suburban-brand SF-30 FQ furnace
- 12V426: model year 2010-2012 recreational
All 5 Trails West 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 26V259 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
83468864 - Consequence
27015767 - 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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