# NHTSA recall 24V531000

A recall listed here may apply to a vehicle of this year, make and model. Only the manufacturer can say whether it applies to one vehicle: check the VIN with the official lookups.

- Published by: NHTSA \(United States\)
- Campaign number: 24V531000
- Manufacturer's number: 51\-1803
- Manufacturer: Forest River, Inc.
- Reported: 2024\-07\-12
- Owners notified: 2024\-08\-02
- Component: TRAILER HITCHES
- Units potentially affected: 17
- Part numbers: 135430

## What is wrong

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.


## What can happen

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.


## 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.safercar.gov.


## Remedy progress the manufacturer reported

- Report: Quarterly report 8, for 2026 quarter 2
- Filed with NHTSA: 2026\-07\-21
- Vehicles in the campaign: 17
- Reported remedied: 11 \(64%\)
- Reported unreachable: 0
- Reported removed: 0

These are the manufacturer's totals for the whole campaign at the end of 2026 quarter 2, as filed with NHTSA. They do not say whether one vehicle has been remedied: check the VIN with the official lookups. The reports are from data as of 2026\-10\-19.

## Vehicles this campaign lists

- [2025 FOREST RIVER CHEROKEE](/makes/forest-river/cherokee/2025/recalls.md)
- [2024 FOREST RIVER PUMA](/makes/forest-river/puma/2024/recalls.md)
- 2024 FOREST RIVER SALEM
- 2024 FOREST RIVER WILDWOOD

## Check a VIN

- [NHTSA recall lookup by VIN, United States](https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls)
- [Transport Canada recall search, Canada](https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/7/VRDB-BDRV/search-recherche/menu.aspx?lang=eng)

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