Winnebago Minnie Winnie Recalls & Complaints by Model Year
NHTSA lists 26 safety recalls and 67 owner complaints across 38 model years of the Winnebago Minnie Winnie (1976–2026). The most-complained-about year is 2000.
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What Winnebago Minnie Winnie owners complain about
Across all model years, owners have filed 67 complaints with NHTSA. The 2000 model year has the most, with 13.
All Winnebago Minnie Winnie recalls (26)
Every NHTSA safety campaign that lists a Winnebago Minnie Winnie, most recent first, with the model years each one covers.
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Freeze prevention heater (equipment)
Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2024-2026 Spirit, Minnie Winnie, Travato, View, Navion, and 2026-2027 Sunflyer, 2021-2026 Commercial vehicle, and 2023-2026 425 Commercial shell motorhomes equipped with a ThermaHeat Tank Pad. The water tank heating pad may experience high resistance and fail.
Remedy: Dealers will install a new water tank heating pad, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 16, 2026. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-641-585-6939 or 1-800-537-1885. Winnebago's…
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Tank assembly (equipment)
Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2025 Minnie Winnie, Navion, Porto, Spirit, View, and Vita recreational vehicles. The LP tank mounting bracket fasteners may have been improperly tightened, causing the tank to detach.
Remedy: Dealers will inspect and correctly tighten the LP tank mounting assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 13, 2025. Owners may call Winnebago customer service at 1-800-537-1885. Winnebago's…
Model years: 2025
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Spare tire mount/rack (equipment)
Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2025 Minnie Winnie and Spirit motorhomes. The spare tire carrier mounting bolts may loosen, allowing the carrier to detach.
Remedy: Dealers will inspect, replace, and correctly torque the bolts as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 3, 2025. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-800-537-1885.…
Model years: 2025
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Oven/stove/cooktop (equipment) and electrical (equipment)
Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2021-2023 Sunstar, Vista, 2022-2023 Cambria, Inspire, 2023 Forza, 2024 Minnie Winnie, Spirit, 2024-2025 Porto and Vita motorhomes. The LED backlight circuit board in the cooktop range may fail, causing the board to overheat.
Remedy: Dealers will replace the cooktop control panel, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 5, 2024. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-641-585-6939 or 1-800-537-1885. Winnebago's…
Model years: 2024
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Labels (equipment)
Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2022 Ekko, 2020-2022 Minnie Winnie, Spirit, 2020-2022 View, Navion, and 2020-2021 Vita, and Porto motorhomes. An incorrect hitch label was installed, which can lead to overloading of the vehicle.
Remedy: Dealers will install the correct labels, free of charge. Owner notification letters were Mailed May 6/2024. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at 1-641-585-6939 or 1-800-537-1885. Winnebago's number for this…
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Escape/egress/exit (structure)
Winnebago Towable (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Micro Minnie 5 travel trailers. An emergency exit window was not installed in the bedroom.
Remedy: Winnebago will notify owners, and dealers will replace the right side bedroom window with an escape window, free of charge. The recall began August 17, 2020. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at…
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Equipment
Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain 2013-2018 Winnebago Era, Travato, Minnie Winnie, Fuse, View, Trend, Aspect, Brave, Vista, Sightseer, Adventurer, Forza, Journey, Tour, Revel, Paseo, Chalet, Access, and Intent motorhomes and Commercial vehicles, and 2013-2018 Itasca Spirit, Navion, Cambria, Tribute, Sunstar,…
Remedy: Winnebago will notify owners, instructing them to contact Kidde for replacement or aftermarket fire extinguishers, free of charge. The recall began on January 19, 2018. Owners may contact Winnebago customer service at…
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Latches/locks/linkages
Winnebago Industries, Inc. (Winnebago) is recalling certain model year 2014-2015 Winnebago Vista, Brave, Trend, Minnie Winnie, and Itasca Sunstar, Tribute, Viva!, and Spirit vehicles manufactured March 18, 2013, to November 18, 2014. Due to a manufacturing issue, the deadbolt locks installed on the vehicles may become stuck in a locked…
Remedy: Winnebago will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and repair deadbolts as needed, free of charge. Winnebago issued an interim notification to owners on August 21, 2015. The recall began on November 4, 2015. Owners…
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Equipment
Winnebago Industries is recalling certain model year 2012-2014 Minnie Winnie, Aspect, Sightseer, Adventurer, and Journey motorhomes; and model year 2012-2014 Itasca Spirit, Cambria, Sunova, Suncruiser, and Meridian motorhomes. The affected vehicles were manufactured January 10, 2012, through April 5, 2013 and may be missing a range…
Remedy: Winnebago notify owners and dealers will install a range enclosure, free of charge. The safety recall began on May 20, 2013. Owners may contact Winnebago at 1-641-585-3535. Winnebago's recall campaign number is 128.
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Equipment adaptive/mobility
Winnebago is recalling 31 my 2006-2008 itasca cambria, horizon, winnebago access, adventurer, journey, minnie winnie, signtseer, tour, vectra, and voyage motor homes equipped with ricon platform style wheelchair lifts. These lifts fail to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 403, "platform lift…
Remedy: Winnebago is working with ricon to correct the wheelchair lifts (please see 07e097). Owners may contact ricon at 1-800-322-2884 or winnebago at 1-641-585-3535.
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Recreational vehicle/trailer (equipment)
Winnebago is recalling my 1999-2002 ultimate advantage, ultimate freedom, my 1999-2001 chieftain, my 2000-2001 brave, my 2001 journey my 2000 minnie winnie, my 2000-2002 itasca horizon, my 1999 suncruiser, my 2001 sunflyer, and my 2000 sunrise motor homes equipped with norcold refrigerators. A fatigue failure in the section of the…
Remedy: Winnebago is working with norcold to repair these refrigerators. Norcold will provide thermal switch kits to owners along with the necessary forms and instructions. The manufacturer has not yet provided an owner…
Model years: 2000
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Exterior lighting
Winnebago is recalling 35 my 2006-2008 aspect, access, chalet, outlook, and minnie winnie motor homes, and my 2007-2008 itasca cambria motor homes. A poor ground may develop on the daytime running light module that would allow the module to overheat.
Remedy: Dealers will replace the daytime running light module ground wire. The recall began on may 30, 2008. Owners may contact winnebago at 1-641-585-3535.
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Equipment adaptive/mobility
Winnebago is recalling 31 my 2006-2008 journey, voyage, my 2006-2007 sightseer, my 2006 adventurer, minnie winnie, my 2007 access, tour, vectra, itasca cambria, and my 2007-2008 itasca horizon motor homes equipped with ricon platform style wheelchair lifts. These motor homes fail to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle…
Remedy: Winnebago is working with ricon to correct the wheelchair lifts free of charge (please see 07e095). The recall began on april 9, 2008. Owners may contact ricon at 1-818-267-3000.
Model years: 2006
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Radio/tape deck/cd etc. (equipment)
On certain motor homes equipped with front overhead televisions, incorrect fasteners were used to secure the television located in the front overhead area of the motor home.
Remedy: Dealers will inspect the vehicle to assure the correct fasteners (bolts) were used in the tv retention strap. The recall began on december 15, 2006. Owners may contact winnebago at 1-800-537-1885.
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Body (structure)
On certain motor homes equipped with kwikee brand electric steps, the steps may have been manufactured with defective step control units.
Remedy: Dealers will inspect the kwikee step and replace the step control unit, if necessary, free of charge. The recall began on december 23, 2005. Owners may contact winnebago at 1-800-537-1885.
Model years: 2006
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Tank assembly (fuel system)
On certain motor homes built on ford chassis, the fasteners holding the fuel tank mounting straps may not have been properly tightened, allowing the possibility for the fuel tank to loosen and fall.
Remedy: Dealers will inspect and properly tighten the fasteners to the fuel tank straps. The recall began on october 15, 2005. Owners may contact winnebago at 614-585-6939.
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Electrical system: wiring
On motor homes built on ford e-series chassis and equipped with gas engines, a diode in the anti-lock braking system (ABS) module may experience an electrical short.
Remedy: Ford motor company is conducting the owner notification and remedy for this campaign. Dealers will install a new fuse in the ABS circuit and install a heat shield over the ABS module. Owners should contact ford at…
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Engine and engine cooling
On motor homes built on ford e-series chassis, the air filter element material process resulted in an air filter paper element that can smolder or burn. This change in filter paper composition combined with the configuration of the air induction system, may allow hot carbon particles to contact the air filter element during certain…
Remedy: Ford motor company is conducting the owner notification and remedy for this campaign. Dealers will inspect and replace the air filter element. Owners should contact ford at 1-800-392-3673 or winnebago at 641-585-3535.
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Recreational vehicle/trailer (equipment)
On certain motor homes equipped with samsung microwave ovens, these units were produced with a defective panel. An electrical short can occur between circuit patterns on the membrane panel, especially overlapped by a "jumper" or jump wire. This may cause the oven to activate without pressing any key pads.
Remedy: Samsung will notify customers and repair the panel free of charge. In the meantime, consumers should unplug their microwave, if possible. If the consumer is unable to unplug the microwave, they should leave the door…
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Recreational vehicle/trailer (equipment)
Certain motor homes equipped with norcold refrigerator cooling units model numbers 1200lr and 1200rim with serial numbers between 700000 and 1008700 . These refrigerators can experience low cycle fatigue failure which can lead to the liquid solution slowly leaking from the sealed, pressurized cooling unit through a small crack.
Remedy: Norcold will notify its customers and provide a replacement cooling unit free of charge. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a…
Model years: 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
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Buckle assembly (seat belts)
Vehicle description: class a motor homes equipped with safety belt assemblies built by am-safe. On some seat belts, the buckle and connector may unlatch during a collision.
Remedy: Dealers will inspect the lap belts and, if necessary, replace it with a new belt assembly. Owner notification began may 25, 2001. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date…
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Hoses, lines/piping, and fittings (fuel system)
Vehicle description: motorhomes. The hose supplying liquid propane gas (lpg) to the refrigerator in the slideout of the unit did not have adequate hose "loop" at the extension mechanism. The insufficient amount of hose in this loop could cause damage to the hose when the room is retracted.
Remedy: Dealers will re-route the lpg hose. Owner notification began march 16, 2001. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable…
Model years: 2001
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Buckle assembly (seat belts)
Vehicle description: class a motor homes equipped with safety belt assemblies built by am-safe. On some seat belts, the buckle and connector may unlatch during a collision.
Remedy: Dealers will inspect and replace the defective buckle assemblies.
Model years: 2000
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Carrier/rack (equipment)
The spare tire carrier hoist components can become loose while traveling and allow the spare tire to move from its stored position to the road surface.
Remedy: Dealers will add a primary spare tire support bracket.
Model years: 1993, 1994
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Body (structure)
The outside tire on the rear axle can contact the inside surface of the sidewall when the vehicle is in transit on a rough surfaced road.
Remedy: Modify the sidewall assembly to eliminate the condition.
Model years: 1992
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Pedals and linkages (service brakes)
Model years: 1976
Other Winnebago models
- Adventurer199 complaints
- Winnebago130 complaints
- Ekko116 complaints
- View95 complaints
- Brave75 complaints
- Sightseer53 complaints
- Journey46 complaints
- Forza42 complaints
Source: NHTSA recall and complaint databases and EPA fuel economy data, October 2026. Complaint counts are owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects. Recall counts are safety campaigns that list this model year; whether a particular car was already repaired depends on its VIN. How this data is compiled.