01 What Gulf Stream publishes for the Enlighten
Gulf Stream Coach lists 6 Enlighten travel trailers in its Enlighten model pages on gulfstreamcoach.com (no model year stated). Gulf Stream prints a dry weight for every one profiled here, and each has a page of its own. It prints no GVWR for any of them. It prints a net carrying capacity for 6; with no GVWR printed, the check that dry weight plus carrying capacity equals the GVWR cannot be made. (How the data is verified.)
02 Gulf Stream Enlighten models
Gulf Stream Enlighten · 6 models
| Model | Dry weight | Cargo (CCC) | GVWR | Tongue | Length | Sleeps | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enlighten 17BH | 2,810 lb | 1,020 lb | Not published by Gulf Stream | 330 lb | 20' 11" | — | Profiled |
| Enlighten 17RB | 2,920 lb | 1,080 lb | Not published by Gulf Stream | 360 lb | 20' 11" | — | Profiled |
| Enlighten 25BH | 3,899 lb | 3,601 lb | Not published by Gulf Stream | 350 lb | 26' 7" | — | Profiled |
| Enlighten 21RBS | 4,360 lb | 3,027 lb | Not published by Gulf Stream | 400 lb | 22' 11" | — | Profiled |
| Enlighten 21RK | 4,620 lb | 2,940 lb | Not published by Gulf Stream | 560 lb | 25' 6" | — | Profiled |
| Enlighten 27BHS | 5,460 lb | 2,210 lb | Not published by Gulf Stream | 670 lb | 29' 11" | — | Profiled |
Read from Gulf Stream’s Enlighten model pages on gulfstreamcoach.com (no model year stated), 6 Nov 2026. “Not published” means the maker prints no figure; nothing is filled from another model, year or dealer.
03 Reading Gulf Stream’s figures
A maker’s published weight is for a base trailer; options and dealer-installed equipment add weight to any particular unit. The federal weight label inside the trailer carries its own unloaded weight, cargo carrying capacity and GVWR (49 CFR 567 and 571.120): read it on the unit itself before any towing decision.
04 Documents
05 Recalls
NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns affecting this line. The earliest was reported 2 Sep 2020 and the most recent 2 Sep 2020.
| Reported | Campaign | Component | What can go wrong |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Sep 2020 | 20V532000 | Equipment | Without the front trim strip, carbon monoxide or flammable unburned Liquid Petroleum (LP) gases may migrate into the living quarters of the travel trailer… |
| 2 Sep 2020 | 20V531000 | Equipment | Without the front trim strip, carbon monoxide or flammable unburned Liquid Petroleum (LP) gases may migrate into the living quarters of the travel trailer… |
Coverage is not complete: this list is a starting point, not a clearance (how it is built), so check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy and again before you tow.
This count covers campaigns NHTSA files under the Gulf Stream Enlighten name.
06 Owner-reported problems
A sweep of NHTSA’s complete complaint file — every safety-defect complaint NHTSA has received since 1 January 1995, matched on NHTSA’s own model field under every name this site publishes for the line — found no complaint naming this line. Treat that as no report found, not as a clean record: owners file under whatever name they were sold, and a newer or lower-volume line simply has fewer owners to file.
How this count is drawn. A report is counted here only when NHTSA’s own model field names this line. What the owner typed in the description is never used to attribute a report: our line names are ordinary English words, and an owner writing “imagine my surprise when the axle went” or naming the state of Montana is not reporting a Grand Design Imagine or a Keystone Montana.
Read these as reports, not as findings. Complaints are submitted by owners and NHTSA does not verify them; no complaint here has been confirmed as a defect, and none of them is a recall. The sample is also self-selected — only owners motivated to file appear in it — so a high count tracks how many units a line sold at least as much as how well it was built. Use the pattern, not the total: a component that keeps recurring is worth inspecting on any used unit. File or search complaints at NHTSA.