Coachmen Cross Country, Coachmen Sportscoach, Forest River Berkshire, Forest River Charleston, Forest River Legacy, model years 2017 to 2020. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 18 August 2020. 1,547 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2017-2018 Charleston, 2017-2019 Legacy, 2017-2020 Berkshire, 2017 Coachmen Cross Country, and 2017-2020 Sportscoach motorhomes built on certain FCCC XB and XC chassis that received an inspection-only remedy for recall 18V-763. The rear mounted Power Distribution …
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The maker's own number for this recall: 51-1203. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V488 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 20V488 cover?
- Coachmen Cross Country, Coachmen Sportscoach, Forest River Berkshire, Forest River Charleston, Forest River Legacy, model years 2017-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2017-2018 Charleston, 2017-2019 Legacy, 2017-2020 Berkshire, 2017 Coachmen Cross Country, and 2017-2020 Sportscoach motorhomes built on certain FCCC XB and XC chassis that received an inspection-only remedy for recall 18V-763.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Non-functioning exterior marker lights can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Forest Rivers will notify owners, and Daimler Trucks dealers will replace the old Power Distribution Module (PDM) with a new PDM, free of charge. The recall began January 18, 2021. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712 . Forest's number for this recall is 51-1203.
- 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 51-1203, 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: “Non-functioning exterior marker lights can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V488 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Brake Lights |
| Reported to NHTSA | 18 August 2020 |
| Model years | 2017-2020 |
| Vehicles named | COACHMEN CROSS COUNTRY, COACHMEN SPORTSCOACH, FOREST RIVER BERKSHIRE, FOREST RIVER CHARLESTON, FOREST RIVER LEGACY |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Non-functioning exterior marker lights can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Forest Rivers will notify owners, and Daimler Trucks dealers will replace the old Power Distribution Module (PDM) with a new PDM, free of charge. The recall began January 18, 2021. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712 . Forest's number for this recall is 51-1203.
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 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Coachmen Cross Country recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Coachmen Sportscoach recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Forest River Berkshire recalls: 27 US campaigns
- Forest River Charleston recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Forest River Legacy recalls: 7 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 20V488, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v488/
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 20V488 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
28040a29 - Consequence
078a42a4 - 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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