Forest River is pulling over more than 1,100 travel trailers after realizing they accidentally wired up a potential fire hazard—because nothing says “relaxing RV getaway” like the risk of your solar system shorting out and torching your rig.
Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2025 Campsite Reserve travel trailers. The Forest River solar controller may be wired incorrectly without overcurrent circuit protection. Wiring without circuit protection may become damaged and short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire. 1,167 of these RVs are affected by the recall.
Forest River solar controller recall remedy
Dealers will rewire the solar controller power wire, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed June 11, 2025. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-260-499-2100. Forest River’s number for this recall is 99-1926.
Notes
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.
What happened?
Forest River calls it a “manufacturing error.” Instead of wiring the solar controller “on the breaker side,” it says “the solar controller may be wired to constant hot of a 30AMP mini-breaker.”
The Forest River solar controller recall is just the latest that sees the company with the highest number of recalls in the entire RV industry. It ranks 4th in the list of recalls by the NHTSA, behind only GM, Ford, and Chrysler.
More Forest River recalls
- Thousands of Forest River rigs recalled for unsafe entry steps
- Forest River issues recalls over sewage venting into living space
- Forest River recalls trailers with wrong safety chain guidelines
- Forest River recalls trailers for cooktop explosion risk
- Forest River recalls RVs after 25 reports of breaking LP brackets
- Forest River recalls some 2025 trailers for microwave issue
- Forest River recalls more than 41,000 RVs for bad wiring fire risk
- Forest River recalls trailers for missing side marker light
- For more Forest River recalls, click here.
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Thank you for the news, Russ and Tina! Well, with snafus such as this Forest River will continue holding the crown awarded to the poorest producer of RVs in the country. Yikes! Have a great day and safe travels!
Forest River NEVER means to have recalls. Strange that is happens to ‘certain’ trailers only. Do the inspectors, if there are any, take breaks at “certain” times, or just don’t care?
Seems like the latter.
Now the customer has a defective and dangerous unit and is inconvenienced by having to taking it in for a recall that may take weeks or months to correct while it sit on the dealers lot.