Forest River Catalina. Published by Transport Canada as 2019442 on 30 August 2019. System: Structure.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain travel trailers, the fasteners that secure the upper bunks may be too short. This could cause an upper bunk to collapse and drop down on top of a person using the bottom bunk.
Safety Risk:
An upper bunk that falls could create a risk of injury.
Corrective Actions:
Forest River will notify …
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Forest River CATALINA in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Forest River CATALINA is named on 23 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2019442
- Recall date
- 30 August 2019
- Make
- Forest River
- Models
- Catalina
- Model years
- 2020
- Vehicle class
- RV Trailer
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 9
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain travel trailers, the fasteners that secure the upper bunks may be too short. This could cause an upper bunk to collapse and drop down on top of a person using the bottom bunk.Safety Risk:
An upper bunk that falls could create a risk of injury.Corrective Actions:
Forest River will notify owners by mail and instruct them to take their vehicle to a dealer to install longer fasteners to secure the upper bunks.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2019442.
Forest River elsewhere in this register
Forest River is named on 239 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2019393 · 9 August 2019 · Columbus · Structure
- 2019381 · 2 August 2019 · Cherokee Alpha Wolf · Structure
- 2019464 · 20 September 2019 · Sabre · Structure
- 2019311 · 21 June 2019 · Georgetown, FR3 · Structure
- 2019312 · 21 June 2019 · Palomino · Structure
- 2019548 · 1 November 2019 · Cherokee Alpha Wolf · Electrical
- 2019594 · 25 November 2019 · Cherokee · Structure
- 2019238 · 17 May 2019 · R-Pod · Electrical
The same system: Structure
800 notices in this register name Structure. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2019441 · 30 August 2019 · 2500, 3500, 1500 · Structure
- 2019435 · 28 August 2019 · 3 Door · Structure
- 2019430 · 26 August 2019 · LF Transport · Structure
- 2019406 · 14 August 2019 · Crossroads · Structure
- 2019446 · 3 September 2019 · Eagle HT Fifth Wheel Trailer · Structure
- 2019448 · 6 September 2019 · Flatbed Trailer · Structure
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Forest River: 239 in the register, and 594 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2019.
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