Coachmen Galleria, Coachmen Prism, Dynamax Isata, Forest River Forester, Forest River Sunseeker, model years 2020 to 2021. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 14 August 2020. 412 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Forest River Forester, Sunseeker, Dynamax Isata and Coachmen Galleria and Prism motorhomes built on Sprinter Van chassis equipped with swivel seats. The wiring harnesses for the front seats may have been routed incorrectly and could become jammed and damaged …
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.
Forest's own number for this recall: 51-1206. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V477 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 20V477 cover?
- Coachmen Galleria, Coachmen Prism, Dynamax Isata, Forest River Forester, Forest River Sunseeker, model years 2020-2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Forest River Forester, Sunseeker, Dynamax Isata and Coachmen Galleria and Prism motorhomes built on Sprinter Van chassis equipped with swivel seats.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the wiring harness is damaged, the side air bag within the seat may deploy inadvertently or not deploy as designed in the event of a crash, increasing the risk of injury to vehicle occupants.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Forest River will notify owners, and Sprinter dealers will inspect the wire harness routing for both front seats and will repair the wiring and add clips or cable ties as needed, free of charge. This recall began September 21, 2020.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Forest calls this recall 51-1206, 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 wiring harness is damaged, the side air bag within the seat may deploy inadvertently or not deploy as designed in the event of a crash, increasing the risk of injury to vehicle occupants.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V477 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Side/Window |
| Reported to NHTSA | 14 August 2020 |
| Model years | 2020-2021 |
| Vehicles named | COACHMEN GALLERIA, COACHMEN PRISM, DYNAMAX ISATA, FOREST RIVER FORESTER, FOREST RIVER SUNSEEKER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the wiring harness is damaged, the side air bag within the seat may deploy inadvertently or not deploy as designed in the event of a crash, increasing the risk of injury to vehicle occupants.
The remedy
Forest River will notify owners, and Sprinter dealers will inspect the wire harness routing for both front seats and will repair the wiring and add clips or cable ties as needed, free of charge. This recall began September 21, 2020. Owners may contact Daimler Vans customer service at 1-877-762-8267. Daimler Vans number for their recall is VS3DREHSIK. Forest's number for this recall is 51-1206.
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 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Coachmen Galleria recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Coachmen Prism recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Dynamax Isata recalls: 15 US campaigns
- Forest River Forester recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Forest River Sunseeker recalls: 21 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 20V477, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v477/
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.
Other Forest River notices we hold
- 22V559: 2022 Coachmen Viking, Clipper, and VTREC camping trailers
- 20V540: 2021 Berkshire BEA40C-380, BEA40E-380, BEA45A-450, and BEA45CA-450 motorhomes equipped with 3000W inverters
- 15V589: model year 2009-2016 Forest River Cherokee and Vengeance recreational trailers manufactured May 16, 2008, to September 14, 2015
All 4 Forest River campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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 20V477 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
3faf188e - Consequence
e2d7f0cd - Remedy
0d1ff11a
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.
The wording we hold for 20V477 · how the whole register is watched
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Coachmen Galleria, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
Put this notice on your site
A small badge that links here and names the register's reference. It costs one line of HTML and needs no key.
The badge is free to use. It links to this page and nowhere else, and it never shows advertising.
Owners of these cars
No register publishes what happens after the letter. Owners do: tell us, in two taps.
Anonymous: no account, no cookie, nothing you type is stored beyond these choices. Figures appear once 3 owners have answered, and are published with the record under CC BY 4.0.