Recall · 21V877000
Forest River recalled the FOREST RIVER Cherokee over equipment
31
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
November 12, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS
- The defect
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2021-2022 Cherokee ACKT29TEBL travel trailers. The tire size and Gross Axle Weight Rating (GAWR) on the Federal Placard are incorrect, which could result in the vehicle being overloaded. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 110, "Tire Selection and Rims" and 49 CFR Part 567, "Certification."
- What it can cause
- An overloaded vehicle can lead to a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Forest River will mail owners a new Federal Placard, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 29, 2021. Owners may contact Forest River Customer Service at 1-260-499-2100. Forest Rivers number for this recall is 17A-1439.
- 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.nhtsa.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 31 vehicles this is a small campaign: 83% 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 2021 to 2022, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2021, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Forest River vehicles have been recalled over the equipment 154 times before this, most recently in October 2021 as 21V784000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 72 complaints with NHTSA, 13 of them before this campaign was filed. 7 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 July 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 6 other recalls published here, the newest being: 22V556000 (equipment), 22V486000 (equipment), 22V243000 (equipment), 22V135000 (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 November 12, 2021 as campaign 21V877000. 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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