Escape Escape 13, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Escape Trailer Industries Ltd. and reported to NHTSA on 4 August 2026. 23 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Escape Trailer Industries Ltd. (Escape) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Escape E13 F1 recreational trailers. Insufficient ventilation around the refrigerator may allow carbon monoxide to buildup inside the passenger cabin.
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 26V505 cover?
- Escape Escape 13, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Escape Trailer Industries Ltd. (Escape) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Escape E13 F1 recreational trailers. Insufficient ventilation around the refrigerator may allow carbon monoxide to buildup inside the passenger cabin.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The accumulation of exhaust fumes increases the risk of injury or death from carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install a ventilation fan and insulation, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 4, 2026. Owners may contact Escape customer service at 1-855-703-1650.
- 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: “The accumulation of exhaust fumes increases the risk of injury or death from carbon monoxide poisoning.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V505 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | ESCAPE TRAILER INDUSTRIES LTD. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Appliance:Refrigerator |
| Reported to NHTSA | 4 August 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | ESCAPE ESCAPE 13 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Escape Trailer Industries Ltd. (Escape) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Escape E13 F1 recreational trailers. Insufficient ventilation around the refrigerator may allow carbon monoxide to buildup inside the passenger cabin.
The consequence
The accumulation of exhaust fumes increases the risk of injury or death from carbon monoxide poisoning.
The remedy
Dealers will install a ventilation fan and insulation, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 4, 2026. Owners may contact Escape customer service at 1-855-703-1650.
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 88b3c462afb21690c576af80670f2520…, 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 26V505, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v505/
The copy quoted above hashes to 88b3c462afb21690c576af80670f2520…. 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.
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 26V505 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f7947f35 - Consequence
2c81d837 - 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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