Brinkley Rv Model I, model year 2027. Filed by Brinkley RV and reported to NHTSA on 30 July 2026. 28 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Brinkley RV (Brinkley) is recalling certain 2027 Model I trailers. The exterior ladder may not be properly secured to the support backer.
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.
Brinkley RV's own number for this recall: REC-2603. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V499 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 26V499 cover?
- Brinkley RV Model I, model year 2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Brinkley RV (Brinkley) is recalling certain 2027 Model I trailers. The exterior ladder may not be properly secured to the support backer.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The ladder may detach during use, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and reinstall the ladder as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 7, 2026. Owners may contact Brinkley's customer service at 1-574-501-4280. Brinkley's number for this recall is REC-2603.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Brinkley RV calls this recall REC-2603, 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: “The ladder may detach during use, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V499 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Brinkley RV |
| System at fault | Structure:Body:Step/Ladder |
| Reported to NHTSA | 30 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2027-2027 |
| Vehicles named | BRINKLEY RV MODEL I |
What the notice says today
The defect
Brinkley RV (Brinkley) is recalling certain 2027 Model I trailers. The exterior ladder may not be properly secured to the support backer.
The consequence
The ladder may detach during use, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and reinstall the ladder as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 7, 2026. Owners may contact Brinkley's customer service at 1-574-501-4280. Brinkley's number for this recall is REC-2603.
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 85ce9af30857d71c8b9fbeb81b3395af…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V499, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v499/
The copy quoted above hashes to 85ce9af30857d71c8b9fbeb81b3395af…. 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 Brinkley RV notices we hold
- 26V334: 2025-2026 Model Z trailers
- 26V043: 2026 Model Z trailers
- 25V497: 2025 Model Z trailers
- 25V286: 2024-2025 Model G and Model Z fifth wheel travel trailers, equipped with a removable step assembly
- 25V042: 2024-2025 Model G fifth wheel trailers
- 24V885: 2024-2025 Model Z Fifth Wheel trailers equipped with Curt Helux Pin Boxes
- 24V786: 2024-2025 Model G fifth wheel trailers
- 24V717: 2025 Model Z travel trailers
All 11 Brinkley RV 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 26V499 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
3a103a26 - Consequence
21f3b898 - 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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