Newmar Freedom Aire, model year 2026. Filed by Newmar Corporation and reported to NHTSA on 29 April 2026. 32 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Newmar Corporation (Newmar) is recalling certain 2026 Freedom Aire motorhomes. The Cargo Carrying Capacity (CCC) label may state an incorrect weight value. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 120, “Wheels and Rims - Other Than Passenger …
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.
Newmar's own number for this recall: 631 RSB. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V273 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 26V273 cover?
- Newmar Freedom Aire, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Newmar Corporation (Newmar) is recalling certain 2026 Freedom Aire motorhomes. The Cargo Carrying Capacity (CCC) label may state an incorrect weight value.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Incorrect weight information can allow the vehicle to be overloaded, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the labels, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 20, 2026. Owners may contact Newmar customer service at 1-800-731-8300. Newmar's number for this recall is 631 RSB.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Newmar calls this recall 631 RSB, 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: “Incorrect weight information can allow the vehicle to be overloaded, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V273 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Newmar Corporation |
| System at fault | Equipment:Other:Labels |
| Reported to NHTSA | 29 April 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | NEWMAR FREEDOM AIRE |
What the notice says today
The defect
Newmar Corporation (Newmar) is recalling certain 2026 Freedom Aire motorhomes. The Cargo Carrying Capacity (CCC) label may state an incorrect weight value. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 120, “Wheels and Rims - Other Than Passenger Cars.”
The consequence
Incorrect weight information can allow the vehicle to be overloaded, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the labels, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 20, 2026. Owners may contact Newmar customer service at 1-800-731-8300. Newmar's number for this recall is 631 RSB.
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 3c481ee1c298ef8eba2c6f98e7d54cc5…, 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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V273, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v273/
The copy quoted above hashes to 3c481ee1c298ef8eba2c6f98e7d54cc5…. 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 Newmar notices we hold
- 26V272: 2026 Freedom Aire motorhomes
- 26V108: 2018-2026 Bay Star and Bay Star Sport motorhomes
- 26V107: 2026 Freedom Aire motorhomes
- 26V015: 2026 Freedom Aire motorhomes equipped with a ThermaHeat Tank Pad
- 25V431: 2023-2024 London Aire, Essex, and 2016-2024 King Aire motorhomes
- 24V787: 2023-2025 Super Star motorhomes
- 24V301: 2022 Bay Star motorhomes
- 24V019: 2022-2023 Dutch Star, Mountain Aire, London Aire, Essex, and 2016 London Aire motorhomes
All 105 Newmar 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 26V273 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
14b513e5 - Consequence
ace36c54 - 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 26V273 · how the whole register is watched
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