Recall · 20V553000
Forest River recalled the FOREST RIVER Vengeance over equipment
273
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
September 11, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS
- The defect
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2014-2016 Vengenance BVGF312A, BCKT24PACK14, BVGF312A, BVGF315A11, BVGF316A, BVGF316A11, BVGF320A, BWZVGF312A, BWZVGF316A and BWZVGF320A trailers. The Federal Placard may indicate an incorrect amount of water for trailers with the 100-gallon option, allowing the trailer to be overloaded. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 120, "Wheels and Rims-Other than Passenger Cars" and 567, "Certification."
- What it can cause
- An overloaded trailer has an increased risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Forest River will notify owners, and dealers will install a new placard that reflects the 100-gallon tank, free of charge. The recall began October 13, 2020. Owners may contact Forest customer service at 1-260-499-2100. Forest River's number for this recall is 17-1193.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Forest RiverVengeance | 2014 to 2016 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 273 vehicles this is a small campaign: 56% 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 2014 to 2016, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Forest River vehicles have been recalled over the equipment 138 times before this, most recently in September 2020 as 20V540000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 1 of the 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 5 complaints with NHTSA, 4 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in August 2016, 4 years before this filing.
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 September 11, 2020 as campaign 20V553000. 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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