Recall · 24V395000
Forest River recalled 2 models over equipment
41,353
Vehicles covered
2
Models
40
Model years
June 4, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER:120/240 VAC ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:CHARGER LOW VOLTAGE BATTERY
- The defect
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2004-2024 Cedar Creek and 2006-2024 Puma fifth wheels trailers. The overcurrent protection from the trailer battery may have been incorrectly routed, allowing the wires to be pulled out of the junction box.
- What it can cause
- A loose wire can cause a short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will reroute the wires to the protected side of the mini-beaker, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 10, 2024. Owners may contact Puma customer service at 1-574-642-0588 or Cedar Creek customer service at 260-593-4000. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-1786.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| Forest RiverCedar Creek | 2004 to 2024 | Not published here |
| Forest RiverPuma | 2006 to 2024 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 41,353 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 88% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2004 to 2024, so the oldest vehicles on it were 20 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Forest River vehicles have been recalled over the equipment 181 times before this, most recently in May 2024 as 24V351000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 4 of the 40 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 22 complaints with NHTSA, 22 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 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 December 2019, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 13 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V245000 (structure), 24V619000 (equipment), 24V531000 (trailer hitches), 24V387000 (exterior lighting).
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 June 4, 2024 as campaign 24V395000. 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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