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Starcraft Bus Allstar, Starcraft Bus Allstar Xl, Starcraft Bus Starlite, model years 2018 to 2019. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 26 July 2019. 43 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2018-2019 Starcraft Allstar, Allstar XL, and Starlite vehicles equipped with Safe Fleet Prolo Roof Escape hatches. Due to a manufacturing issue, the roof hatch external handle may unexpectedly break under reasonable use.

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.

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Forest River's own number for this recall: 05-1060. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V555 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 19V555 cover?
Starcraft Bus Allstar, Starcraft Bus Allstar XL, Starcraft Bus Starlite, model years 2018-2019.
What is wrong with them?
Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2018-2019 Starcraft Allstar, Allstar XL, and Starlite vehicles equipped with Safe Fleet Prolo Roof Escape hatches. Due to a manufacturing issue, the roof hatch external handle may unexpectedly break under reasonable use.
What can happen if it is not put right?
If the roof hatch external handle breaks, in the event of an emergency, the hatch cannot be easily opened from outside the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Forest River will notify owners, and dealers will replace the hatch, free of charge. The recall began August 27, 2019. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-800-748-3440. Forest River's number for this recall is 05-1060.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Forest River calls this recall 05-1060, 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 roof hatch external handle breaks, in the event of an emergency, the hatch cannot be easily opened from outside the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury.”

43vehicles potentially
affected
3models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 26 July 2019owners told 27 August 2019today
The defect reached the regulator on 26 July 2019. Owners were written to 32 days later, on 27 August 2019. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign19V555
Filed byForest River, Inc.
System at faultStructure:Emergency:Escape/Egress/Exit
Reported to NHTSA26 July 2019
Model years2018-2019
Vehicles namedSTARCRAFT BUS ALLSTAR, STARCRAFT BUS ALLSTAR XL, STARCRAFT BUS STARLITE

What the notice says today

The consequence

If the roof hatch external handle breaks, in the event of an emergency, the hatch cannot be easily opened from outside the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury.

The remedy

Forest River will notify owners, and dealers will replace the hatch, free of charge. The recall began August 27, 2019. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-800-748-3440. Forest River's number for this recall is 05-1060.

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 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The models named here, across their whole recall history

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CarsMultiverse, recall 19V555, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v555/

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.

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