The Recall Desk
HighNHTSA·24V531000·Announced 2024-12-07

[pending] 2025 FOREST RIVER CHEROKEE

Pending LLM rewrite. Source: NHTSA 24V531000.

What this means for you

Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.

Our severity reasoning: Pending LLM scoring against the rubric.

Plain-English summary

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.

Hitch failure increases the risk of a crash or injury.

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.

The recalled product

Product
2025 FOREST RIVER CHEROKEE
Brand
FOREST RIVER
Manufacturer
Forest River, Inc.
Category
Vehicle — TRAILER HITCHES
Affected units
17

Is your product affected?

Check your packaging against the codes below. If any of them match, the product is part of this recall.

Model numbers (4)

  • CHEROKEE
  • SALEM
  • WILDWOOD
  • PUMA

Distribution

Distributed nationwide across the United States.

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