Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Salem and Wildwood travel trailers. A secondary emergency exit window may not have been installed in the recreational vehicles.
In the event of an emergency, passengers may not be able to exit the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury or death. As many as 573 RVs may be involved in the recall.
Remedy
Dealers will install an emergency exit window, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 7, 2024. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 574-534-3167, as well, for more information. Forest River’s number for this recall is 72-1805.
Notes
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.
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This is a sad indications of todays RV manufacturing. Just how does something this important get thru the manufacturing process with all the supposed “qualify control” supervisors, then dealers PDIs!! These RVs should never have left the factory lots!!
Forest River is owned by Thor. A little investigation will reveal that quality is not satisfactory. This is not a surprise.
owned by berkshire hathaway not thor that would be disasterous
Another new, sad chapter in a never ending story line for F.R.
Thank you, RV Travel! 🙂 Yikes! That is one big, serious, and dangerous “oops.” Forest River is really something and it’s something bad. 🙁 Thanks again, have a great holiday, safe travels, and safe stays! 🙂
How? Just how? can you screw up 573 times without knowing it? And EMERGENCY EXIT on top of it? SOMEONE had to know it. It is not like 573 of these things just zip thru the line in one day. When the window guy went to the emergency window bin to pick one up, surely, he knew it. The parts ordering guy surely knew they needed to order more. I am sure some management person knew it. Just ship them out and we will let the dealer install them when we figure it out. They need to be investigated just like Boeing. This HAD to be known. Like gov’t intervention or not, this industry needs to be regulated in some manner.