Your 2025 Reflection: two recalls, a letter expected Nov 16

Your Reflection: what’s on file

2025 Grand Design Reflection: what NHTSA’s files hold on this model and year, as read Nov 6. Two recalls, both filed this year, one with letters not yet mailed and one with a repair count on file; one owner report, from October; no service bulletin (a maker’s notice to repair shops, not a recall) and no NHTSA investigation.

Your first email from RV Bulletin, an independent weekly built from NHTSA’s public files. Most Sundays nothing new is filed on one exact model and year, and this email says so. If you bought yours used, the maker may still be writing to the last owner: Bought it used says what to do once.

Solar controller: a fire risk at the 7-way power center, and trailer brakes or exterior lights that can quit, which the filing calls a crash risk.

Grand Design filed the recall Sep 24 for 16,075 Reflections, 2024 to 2027, the ones built with the auto-detect solar controller and the 7-way bulkhead power center. As filed, the controller’s firmware can pick 24 volts on a 12-volt trailer. The fix is free, and most of it is yours to do: the letter Grand Design mails to the owner it has on file gives the steps. You update the controller through Furrion’s app, which sets it to 12 volts, and send Grand Design a screenshot with your VIN. Grand Design’s report and its dealer instructions don’t describe every step the same way, so go by the letter. NHTSA’s summary adds that the lighting gets inspected and repaired as needed, also free. The filing says to check the brakes and exterior lights after the update and before you tow, and that if either fails, do not tow; a dealer is for that case, and for anyone who cannot do the update. Grand Design’s letters are expected Nov 16 to 20. No quarterly report yet, so no count of repairs.

In the record: Grand Design 910068, NHTSA 26V616000, phone 1-574-825-9679, Recall prompt.

Grand Design’s defect report to NHTSA, amended Oct 15.

Shock bolts: a bolt head and washer that can break loose while you tow and drop on the road as debris, which NHTSA’s summary calls a crash risk.

Open since June on 1,111 Reflection travel trailers and fifth wheels with the CURT Touring Coil Suspension, 202 of them 2025s. As filed, the shock retaining bolts may have been over-torqued at install, so a head can fracture; Grand Design’s estimate is 3% of them. The fix is free and takes a dealer about an hour: every shock bolt swapped for a grade 8 bolt.

(25.47%), per Grand Design’s quarterly report to NHTSA for Q3 2026. Letters went out June 26. If you bought yours used, you may never have seen one: the letter asks anyone who has since sold the trailer to tell Grand Design, with the VIN.

In the record: Grand Design 910062, NHTSA 26V354000, phone 1-574-825-9679.

Grand Design’s defect report to NHTSA, Jun 1. Quarterly report, Q3 2026.

An owner reported the trailer’s electric brakes locking up repeatedly while towing (11774015, Oct 27): no fire, crash or injury flag. It does not mention the solar controller, so we are not tying the two. One owner’s report, not a finding. Has yours done this?

Owner report to NHTSA 11774015, October 2026. Complaints are owners’ own reports, not findings.

The frame-flex investigation PE24029, open since Oct 9, 2024, covers 2017 to 2023 Momentum and Solitude. Not the Reflection, so not yours. Your Reflection’s page: rvbulletin.com/grand-design/reflection/.