Coachmen Adrenaline, Coachmen Work And Play, Forest River Forester, Forest River Rockwood, Forest River Xlr, model years 2018 to 2019. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 13 August 2018. 2,582 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2019 Coachmen Work and Play and Adrenaline recreational trailers, 2018-2019 Forest River Forester and XLR recreational trailers and 2018 Forest River Rockwood recreational trailers. The awning may deploy while moving.
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: 51-0715. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V527 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 18V527 cover?
- Coachmen Adrenaline, Coachmen Work And Play, Forest River Forester, Forest River Rockwood, Forest River XLR, model years 2018-2019.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2019 Coachmen Work and Play and Adrenaline recreational trailers, 2018-2019 Forest River Forester and XLR recreational trailers and 2018 Forest River Rockwood recreational trailers. The awning may deploy while moving.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the awning deploys while moving, there would be an increased risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Forest River will notify owners, and dealers will replace the awning controller, free of charge. The recall began September 13, 2018.
- 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 51-0715, 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: “If the awning deploys while moving, there would be an increased risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V527 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 August 2018 |
| Model years | 2018-2019 |
| Vehicles named | COACHMEN ADRENALINE, COACHMEN WORK AND PLAY, FOREST RIVER FORESTER, FOREST RIVER ROCKWOOD, FOREST RIVER XLR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the awning deploys while moving, there would be an increased risk of a crash.
The remedy
Forest River will notify owners, and dealers will replace the awning controller, free of charge. The recall began September 13, 2018. Owners may contact Coachmen customer service at 1-574-825-6302, Forester customer service at 1-574-206-7600, Rockwood customer service at 1-574-642-4053, XLR Toyhauler customer service at 1-574-642-0432, or Lippert customer service at 1-574-538-4514 or recall@lci1.com. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-0715.
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 Adrenaline recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Coachmen Work And Play recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Forest River Forester recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Forest River Rockwood recalls: 28 US campaigns
- Forest River XLR recalls: 22 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 18V527, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v527/
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 18V527 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
b1aa1cd1 - Consequence
12213a4b - 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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