Coachmen Cross Country, Coachmen Encore, Coachmen Mirada, Coachmen Sportscoach, Forest River Berkshire, Forest River Blue Ridge, model years 2011 to 2021. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 9 July 2021. 825 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2015-2017 Coachmen Cross Country, 2015 Coachmen Encore, 2016-2020 Coachmen Mirada, 2018-2021 Coachmen Sportscoach, 2019-2021 Forest River Berkshire, 2011-2016 Forest River Blue Ridge, 2014-2019 Forest River Cardinal, 2014-2020 Forest River Cedar Creek, 2014-2021 …
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: 51-1380. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V523 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 21V523 cover?
- Coachmen Cross Country, Coachmen Encore, Coachmen Mirada, Coachmen Sportscoach, Forest River Berkshire, Forest River Blue Ridge, Forest River Cardinal, Forest River Cedar Creek, model years 2011-2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2015-2017 Coachmen Cross Country, 2015 Coachmen Encore, 2016-2020 Coachmen Mirada, 2018-2021 Coachmen Sportscoach, 2019-2021 Forest River Berkshire, 2011-2016 Forest River Blue Ridge, 2014-2019 Forest River Cardinal, 2014-2020 Forest River...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Adhesive failure may cause the vent portion of the window to detach, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect the windows, and replace the vent if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 2, 2021. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-574-825-8600. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-1380.
- 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 51-1380, 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: “Adhesive failure may cause the vent portion of the window to detach, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V523 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 9 July 2021 |
| Model years | 2011-2021 |
| Vehicles named | COACHMEN CROSS COUNTRY, COACHMEN ENCORE, COACHMEN MIRADA, COACHMEN SPORTSCOACH, FOREST RIVER BERKSHIRE, FOREST RIVER BLUE RIDGE, FOREST RIVER CARDINAL, FOREST RIVER CEDAR CREEK, FOREST RIVER GEORGETOWN, FOREST RIVER LEGACY, FOREST RIVER RIVERSTONE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Adhesive failure may cause the vent portion of the window to detach, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect the windows, and replace the vent if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 2, 2021. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-574-825-8600. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-1380.
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 Cross Country recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Coachmen Mirada recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Coachmen Sportscoach recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Forest River Berkshire recalls: 27 US campaigns
- Forest River Blue Ridge recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Forest River Cardinal recalls: 17 US campaigns
- Forest River Cedar Creek recalls: 15 US campaigns
- Forest River Georgetown recalls: 24 US campaigns
- Forest River Legacy recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Forest River Riverstone recalls: 7 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 21V523, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v523/
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 21V523 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9c47115f - Consequence
a410b8f3 - 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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