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Recall · 20V358000

Forest River recalled 6 models over equipment

392

Vehicles covered

6

Models

12

Model years

June 16, 2020

Filed with NHTSA

EQUIPMENT:OTHER:OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL

The defect
Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Coachmen Galleria and PRISM, Forest River Forester, Battisti and Sunseeker and Dynamax Isata recreational vehicles built on Sprinter chassis with automatic transmission. The operator's manual does not correctly specify certain conditions under which the automatic parking function ("Auto-P") operates.
What it can cause
If the driver relies on the Auto-P function as described in the Operator's Manual, vehicle rollaway or movement may occur, increasing the risk of a crash.
What the dealer does
Forest River will notify owners, and Mercedes-Benz dealers will provide the correct description of the Auto-P function for the Operator's Manual, free of charge. The recall began June 25, 2020. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-800-348-7440 or Sprinter service at 1-877-762-8267. The booklet with correct information is also available online through Mercedes-Benz, free of charge.
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 .

VehicleModel yearsSafety record
CoachmenGalleria2020 to 2021Not published here
CoachmenPrism2020 to 2021Not published here
DynamaxIsata2020 to 2021Not published here
Forest RiverBattisti2020 to 2021Not published here
Forest RiverForester2020 to 2021Not published here
Forest RiverSunseeker2020 to 2021Not published here

How this campaign compares

At 392 vehicles this is a small campaign: 52% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2021, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2020, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.

Forest River vehicles have been recalled over the equipment 130 times before this, most recently in May 2020 as 20V297000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.

The vehicles on this campaign carry 15 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V771000 (equipment), 24V272000 (equipment), 24V040000 (structure), 24V005000 (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 June 16, 2020 as campaign 20V358000. 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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