Coachmen Aurora, Coachmen Encounter, Coachmen Mirada, Coachmen Prism, Coachmen Pursuit, Forest River Aviator, model years 2007 to 2015. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 25 November 2015. 9,687 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2014 FR3, 2009 Forest River Encore, Sportscoach Elite, and Aurora, 2008-2009 Cruise Master, 2012-2015 Aviator, 2007-2014 Georgetown, 2007-2009 Legend, 2008-2012 Ridgeview, 2008-2014 Cross Country, 2010-2014 Coachmen Encounter, 2009-2014 Pathfinder, Solera, Mirada, …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
The maker's own number for this recall: 51-11102015-0109. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 15V798 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 15V798 cover?
- Coachmen Aurora, Coachmen Encounter, Coachmen Mirada, Coachmen Prism, Coachmen Pursuit, Forest River Aviator, Forest River Cross Country, Forest River Encore, model years 2007-2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2014 FR3, 2009 Forest River Encore, Sportscoach Elite, and Aurora, 2008-2009 Cruise Master, 2012-2015 Aviator, 2007-2014 Georgetown, 2007-2009 Legend, 2008-2012 Ridgeview, 2008-2014 Cross Country, 2010-2014 Coachmen Encounter, 2009-2014...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Unstable entry and exit steps increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Forest River will notify owners and dealers will install a retainer bracket to reinforce the operating mechanism, free of charge. Forest River issued an interim notification to owners on January 7, 2016. The recall began on March 3, 2016.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 51-11102015-0109, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Unstable entry and exit steps increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15V798 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 25 November 2015 |
| Model years | 2007-2015 |
| Vehicles named | COACHMEN AURORA, COACHMEN ENCOUNTER, COACHMEN MIRADA, COACHMEN PRISM, COACHMEN PURSUIT, FOREST RIVER AVIATOR, FOREST RIVER CROSS COUNTRY, FOREST RIVER ENCORE, FOREST RIVER FR3, FOREST RIVER GEORGETOWN, FOREST RIVER LEGEND, FOREST RIVER PATHFINDER, FOREST RIVER RIDGEVIEW, FOREST RIVER SOLERA |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Unstable entry and exit steps increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
Forest River will notify owners and dealers will install a retainer bracket to reinforce the operating mechanism, free of charge. Forest River issued an interim notification to owners on January 7, 2016. The recall began on March 3, 2016. Owners may contact Forest River customer service number at 1-574-389-4600. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-11102015-0109. Or owners can contact Lippert Components at 1-574-537-8900.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Coachmen Encounter recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Coachmen Mirada recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Coachmen Prism recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Coachmen Pursuit recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Forest River FR3 recalls: 13 US campaigns
- Forest River Georgetown recalls: 24 US campaigns
- Forest River Solera recalls: 7 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 15V798, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15v798/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 15V798 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
efed601f - Consequence
e5b7ea21 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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