Forest River Surveyor. Published by Transport Canada as 2020223 on 22 May 2020. System: Other.
What the notice says Issue:
Certain travel trailers were equipped with safety chains that are not strong enough. As a result, if the trailer becomes uncoupled from the tow vehicle, the safety chains could break. This could allow the trailer to detach from the tow vehicle.
Safety Risk:
A trailer that separates from the tow vehicle …
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Forest River SURVEYOR in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Forest River SURVEYOR is named on 18 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
- 2020223
- Recall date
- 22 May 2020
- Make
- Forest River
- Models
- Surveyor
- Model years
- 2020 to 2021
- Vehicle class
- RV Trailer
- System
- Other
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 4
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
Certain travel trailers were equipped with safety chains that are not strong enough. As a result, if the trailer becomes uncoupled from the tow vehicle, the safety chains could break. This could allow the trailer to detach from the tow vehicle.Safety Risk:
A trailer that separates from the tow vehicle could create the risk of a crash.Corrective Actions:
Forest River will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your trailer to a dealer to replace the safety chains with stronger ones.
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 2020223.
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.
- 2020214 · 15 May 2020 · XLR Micro Boost · Structure
- 2020206 · 13 May 2020 · Vibe · Structure
- 2020278 · 19 June 2020 · Surveyor · Accessories
- 2020285 · 25 June 2020 · Sunseeker, Cedar Creek, Rockwood · Structure
- 2020314 · 10 July 2020 · Riverstone · Electrical
- 2020375 · 14 August 2020 · Galleria, Isata, Sunseeker · Airbag
- 2020378 · 14 August 2020 · Salem, Wildwood · Structure
- 2020081 · 28 February 2020 · Shasta · Suspension
The same system: Other
398 notices in this register name Other. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2020202 · 11 May 2020 · Expedition · Other
- 2020319 · 15 July 2020 · Urus · Other
- 2019621 · 11 December 2019 · Cayman, 911 GT3, 911 R · Other
- 2019518 · 15 October 2019 · 579 · Other
- 2019504 · 8 October 2019 · Precept Motorhome · Other
- 2019505 · 8 October 2019 · Alante Motorhome · Other
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Forest River Surveyor, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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 536 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2020.
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