The defect
Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2024 Salem, Puma, Wildwood, and 2025 Cherokee travel trailers equipped with certain Pacific Rim brand couplers. The couplers have an incorrect load rating of 14,000 pounds and may be overloaded, causing the hitch to fail.
The risk
Hitch failure increases the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect the date code of the hitch coupler and replace it if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 2, 2024. Owners may contact Forest River Customer Service at Salem & Wildwood (574) 534-3167, Puma (574) 642-0588 or Cherokee (260) 499-2100. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-1803.
NHTSA's own wording · initiated by MFR
Vehicles covered
| Model | Model years |
|---|---|
| Forest River Cherokee | 2025 |
| Forest River Puma | 2024 |
| Forest River Salem | 2024 |
| Forest River Wildwood | 2024 |
Components: TRAILER HITCHES
Model years in this recall
NHTSA complaints and the number of recall campaigns for each model year this recall covers.
| Model | Year | Complaints | Recalls |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest River Cherokee | 2025 | 1 | 4 |
| Forest River Puma | 2024 | 0 | 4 |
| Forest River Salem | 2024 | 4 | 10 |
| Forest River Wildwood | 2024 | 1 | 10 |
Other trailer hitches recalls in 2024
9 of the 950 recall campaigns reported to NHTSA in 2024 concerned the trailer hitches; Forest River, Inc. filed 592 campaigns in all.
| 24V899000 27 Nov 2024 | Keystone RV Company |
| 24V885000 22 Nov 2024 | Brinkley RV |
| 24V640000 26 Aug 2024 | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing |
| 24V626000 21 Aug 2024 | OEM Systems, LLC |
| 24V322000 9 May 2024 | Oliver Travel Trailers, INC. |
| 24V265000 12 Apr 2024 | Forest River, Inc. |
| 24V116000 16 Feb 2024 | Forest River, Inc. |
| 24V098000 9 Feb 2024 | Vermeer Manufacturing Company |
NHTSA recalls (public domain) · all recalls of 2024