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Recall · 25V245000

Forest River recalled 15 models over structure

4,179

Vehicles covered

15

Models

22

Model years

April 14, 2025

Filed with NHTSA

STRUCTURE:BODY:STEP/LADDER

The defect
Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Coachmen Catalina, Forest River Aurora, Cascade, Cedar Creek, Cherokee, Sandpiper, Sierra, 2025 Campsite Reserve, Impression, Pause, Puma, Sabre, Salem, Vengeance, and Wildwood fifth wheel and travel trailers, equipped with a removable step assembly. The clip-on bracket mounting bolts may come loose, allowing the steps to detach.
What it can cause
Steps that detach while in use increase the risk of injury.
What the dealer does
Dealers will inspect and repair or replace the clip-on bracket as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 28, 2025. Owners may contact customer service at Aurora & Catalina (1-574-825-4995), Campsite Reserve, Cascade, Cherokee, Sabre, Vengeance (1-260-499-2100), Cedar Creek (1-260-593-4000), Impression (1-574-327-2716), Pause (1-574-327-2681), Puma (1-574-642-0588), Sierra & Sandpiper (1-574-534-4574), and Salem & Wildwood (1-574-534-3167). Forest River's number for this recall is 51-1915.
NHTSA's note
Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1- 888-275-9171), 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.

VehicleModel yearsSafety record
Coachmen Catalina2024 to 2025Not published here
Forest River Aurora2024 to 2025Not published here
Forest River Campsite Reserve2025Not published here
Forest River Cascade2024 to 2025Not published here
Forest River Cedar Creek2024 to 2025Not published here
Forest River Cherokee2024 to 2025Not published here
Forest River Impression2025Not published here
Forest River Pause2025Not published here
Forest River Puma2025Not published here
Forest River Sabre2025Not published here
Forest River Salem20252025
Forest River Sandpiper2024 to 2025Not published here
Forest River Sierra2024 to 2025Not published here
Forest River Vengeance2025Not published here
Forest River Wildwood2025Not published here

How this campaign compares

At 4,179 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 73% of the 18,578 vehicle recalls with a published size filed from 1995 up to this one. The middle campaign among them covers 470. It covers model years 2024 to 2025, 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 23 times before this, most recently in August 2024 as 24V629000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.

This site holds the complaint record for 1 of the 22 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 5 complaints with NHTSA. 2 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.

The vehicles on this campaign carry 30 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V704000 (electrical system), 26V686000 (equipment), 26V608000 (structure), 26V352000 (equipment).

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Filed by Forest River, Inc. with NHTSA on April 14, 2025 as campaign 25V245000. 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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