Recall · 20V563000
Forest River recalled 3 models over trailer hitches
4,397
Vehicles covered
3
Models
9
Model years
September 18, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
TRAILER HITCHES
- The defect
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2018-2021 Wildwood, Salem, and 2020 Sonoma travel trailers. The break-away safety switch may not be wired to constant power, which can cause the trailer brakes to not activate in the event of a trailer separation from the tow vehicle.
- What it can cause
- If the brakes of the trailer do not engage, it can result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Forest River will notify owners, and dealers will rewire the breakaway switch, free of charge. The recall began October 13, 2020. Owners may contact Forest customer service at 1-909-873-3777. Forest River's number for this recall is 67A-1230.
- 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 4,397 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 2018 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Forest River vehicles have been recalled over the trailer hitches 6 times before this, most recently in December 2019 as 19V901000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 6 of the 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 49 complaints with NHTSA, 10 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2017, 3 years 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 September 18, 2020 as campaign 20V563000. 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 2020-09-18.
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