Recall · 20V654000
Forest River recalled the FOREST RIVER Cherokee over electrical system
9,261
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
October 26, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- The defect
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2019-2021 Cherokee recreational trailers. The shore cord inlet wiring insulation may not have been sufficiently stripped back, causing a poor connection with the set screw.
- What it can cause
- A poor electrical connection can increase the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Forest River will notify owners, and dealers will remove the inlet, and rewire or replace the inlet completely if necessary, free of charge. The recall began November 23, 2020. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-260-499-2100. Forest River's number for this recall is 17D-1201.
- 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 9,261 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 79% 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 electrical system 29 times before this, most recently in July 2020 as 20V400000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 72 complaints with NHTSA, 7 of them before this campaign was filed. 6 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2019, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 24V003000 (structure), 22V243000 (equipment), 21V877000 (equipment), 20V075000 (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 October 26, 2020 as campaign 20V654000. 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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