Recall · 22V562000
Forest River recalled 2 models over structure
609
Vehicles covered
2
Models
4
Model years
August 2, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY
- The defect
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2021-2022 Salem and Wildwood fifth wheel travel trailers. The awning rail may not be attached to a backer in the sidewall, which can allow the awning to detach while the vehicle is in motion.
- What it can cause
- An awning that detaches increases the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect for backers and reattach the awning if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 8, 2022. Owners may contact Forest River Customer Service at 1-574-534-3167. Forest River's number for this recall is 69-1538.
- 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 609 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 2021 to 2022, 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 structure 14 times before this, most recently in October 2021 as 21V830000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 3 of the 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 31 complaints with NHTSA, 8 of them before this campaign was filed. 8 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 11 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V682000 (electrical system), 22V729000 (equipment), 22V556000 (equipment), 22V486000 (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 2, 2022 as campaign 22V562000. 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 2022-08-02.
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