Recall · 20V075000
Forest River recalled 9 models over equipment
4,464
Vehicles covered
9
Models
11
Model years
February 12, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER
- The defect
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Surveyor, NO BO, Cherokee, R. POD, Clipper, Viking, Independence, Puma and East to West trailers. The spare tire carrier U-bolts may fail allowing the spare tire carrier and spare tire detach from the vehicle.
- What it can cause
- If the spare tire carrier and spare tire detach from the vehicle while in motion, it can become a road hazard and increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Forest River will notify owners, and dealers will replace U-bolts, free of charge. The recall began March 20, 2020. Owners may contact Surveyor, NO BO, R. and POD customer service at 1-574-642-3119, Independence, Viking, and Clipper customer service at 1-269-467-4600, Puma customer service at -574-642-0606, East and West customer service at 1-574-264-6664 or Cherokee customer service at 1-877-426-5337. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-1133.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| CoachmenClipper | 2019 to 2020 | Not published here |
| CoachmenViking | 2019 to 2020 | Not published here |
| Forest RiverCherokee | 2020 | 2020 |
| Forest RiverEast to West | 2020 | Not published here |
| Forest RiverIndependence | 2020 | Not published here |
| Forest RiverNO Boundaries | 2020 | Not published here |
| Forest RiverPuma | 2020 | Not published here |
| Forest RiverR-POD | 2020 | 2020 |
| Forest RiverSurveyor | 2020 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 4,464 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 73% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Forest River vehicles have been recalled over the equipment 127 times before this, most recently in February 2020 as 20V070000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 3 of the 11 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 28 complaints with NHTSA, 1 of them before this campaign was filed. 1 of those name the equipment, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 6 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V395000 (equipment), 24V003000 (structure), 20V763000 (equipment), 20V654000 (electrical system).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Forest River, Inc. with NHTSA on February 12, 2020 as campaign 20V075000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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