Heartland Sundance Fifth Wheel, Jayco Fifth Wheel Eagle, Jayco Fifth Wheel Eagle Sle, model year 2027. Filed by Jayco, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 6 August 2026. 137 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Jayco, Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain 2027 Jayco Eagle, Eagle SLE, and Heartland Sundance fifth wheel trailers. The auto leveling jacks may be lowered during transit.
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.
Jayco's own number for this recall: 9901665. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V518 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 26V518 cover?
- Heartland Sundance Fifth Wheel, Jayco Fifth Wheel Eagle, Jayco Fifth Wheel Eagle Sle, model year 2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Jayco, Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain 2027 Jayco Eagle, Eagle SLE, and Heartland Sundance fifth wheel trailers. The auto leveling jacks may be lowered during transit.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Activation of the jacks during transit increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install a jumper wire, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 20, 2026. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-283-8267. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901665.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Jayco calls this recall 9901665, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
- Has this notice changed since it was announced?
- Yes. The remedy was reworded on 22 Aug 2026. Both versions are on this page, with the date each was read.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
Owners of this vehicle were written to on 20 August 2026. The remedy was reworded on 22 August 2026, 2 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Read both versions.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Activation of the jacks during transit increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V518 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Jayco, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Wiring |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 August 2026 |
| Model years | 2027-2027 |
| Vehicles named | HEARTLAND SUNDANCE FIFTH WHEEL, JAYCO FIFTH WHEEL EAGLE, JAYCO FIFTH WHEEL EAGLE SLE |
What the notice says today
The defect
Jayco, Inc. (Jayco) is recalling certain 2027 Jayco Eagle, Eagle SLE, and Heartland Sundance fifth wheel trailers. The auto leveling jacks may be lowered during transit.
The consequence
Activation of the jacks during transit increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will install a jumper wire, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 20, 2026. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-283-8267. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901665.
What it said before
This notice has been edited since it was first published. NHTSA shows only the current version. Both are below, read straight from the agency at the times shown, with the words that moved marked.
The remedy was rewritten
3 words added, 6 removed. The notice grew from 228 to 211 characters.
Dealers will install a jumper wire, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 11, 2026. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-283-8267. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901665.
Dealers will install a jumper wire, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 20, 2026. Owners may contact Jayco customer service at 1-800-283-8267. Jayco's number for this recall is 9901665.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
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 same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2026385, recorded 6 August 2026 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 9901665, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
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 26V518, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v518/
The copy quoted above hashes to 9f5c7dcdb51671a42eba36fe932b25d7…. 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.
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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 26V518 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8698c476 - Consequence
2fe2a1f2 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026 and have caught it being edited 1 time since.
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