Cargo Mate Cargo Mate, Coachmen Apex, Coachmen Catalina, Coachmen Concord, Coachmen Freedom Express, Coachmen Freelander, model years 2003 to 2018. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 22 November 2017. 365,885 vehicles potentially affected.
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: 51-0544. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V756 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 17V756 cover?
- Cargo Mate Cargo Mate, Coachmen Apex, Coachmen Catalina, Coachmen Concord, Coachmen Freedom Express, Coachmen Freelander, Coachmen Leprechaun, Coachmen Mirada, model years 2003-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2003-2018 Forest River Berkshire, Charleston, Rockport, Cedar Creek, Cherokee, Riverstone, Salem, Sandpiper, Sierra, Vengeance, Wildcat, Wildwood, XLR Boost, Cargo Mate, Continental Cargo, motorhomes, recreational trailers, toyhaulers, cargo...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- In the event of a fire, if the fire extinguisher does not function properly, it can increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Forest River will notify owners, instructing them to contact Kidde for a replacement fire extinguisher, free of charge. The recall began on December 27, 2017.
- 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 51-0544, 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: “In the event of a fire, if the fire extinguisher does not function properly, it can increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V756 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment |
| Reported to NHTSA | 22 November 2017 |
| Model years | 2003-2018 |
| Vehicles named | CARGO MATE CARGO MATE, COACHMEN APEX, COACHMEN CATALINA, COACHMEN CONCORD, COACHMEN FREEDOM EXPRESS, COACHMEN FREELANDER, COACHMEN LEPRECHAUN, COACHMEN MIRADA, COACHMEN ORION, COACHMEN PRISM, COACHMEN PURSUIT, CONTINENTAL CARGO CONTINENTAL CARGO, FOREST RIVER BERKSHIRE, FOREST RIVER CEDAR CREEK |
What the notice says today
The consequence
In the event of a fire, if the fire extinguisher does not function properly, it can increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
Forest River will notify owners, instructing them to contact Kidde for a replacement fire extinguisher, free of charge. The recall began on December 27, 2017. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-800-348-7440, or Kidde customer service toll free at 1-855-262-3540, or online at www.kidde.com and click on "Product Safety Recall" for more information. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-0544.
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 Apex recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Coachmen Catalina recalls: 28 US campaigns
- Coachmen Concord recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Coachmen Freedom Express recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Coachmen Freelander recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Coachmen Leprechaun recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Coachmen Mirada recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Coachmen Orion recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Coachmen Prism recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Coachmen Pursuit recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Continental Cargo Continental Cargo recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Forest River Berkshire recalls: 27 US campaigns
- Forest River Cedar Creek recalls: 15 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 17V756, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v756/
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 17V756 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8ccf119b - Consequence
a7a67d49 - 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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