Recall · 20V482000
Forest River recalled 2 models over equipment
643
Vehicles covered
2
Models
6
Model years
August 14, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT
- The defect
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2019-2021 Salem and Wildwood motorhomes. The fresh water tank may not be properly secured to the vehicle's frame.
- What it can cause
- A fresh water tank that detaches from the frame could increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Forest River will notify owners, and dealers will properly secure the holding tank, free of charge. This recall began September 23, 2020. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-503-831-5410. Forest River's number for this recall is 22-1219.
- 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 .
How this campaign compares
At 643 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 53% 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 2021, 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 136 times before this, most recently in July 2020 as 20V386000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 4 of the 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 32 complaints with NHTSA, 3 of them before this campaign was filed. 4 of those name the equipment, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2019, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 11 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V682000 (electrical system), 22V729000 (equipment), 22V562000 (structure), 22V243000 (equipment).
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 August 14, 2020 as campaign 20V482000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2020-08-14.
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