Coachmen Apex, Coachmen Brookstone, Coachmen Chaparral, Coachmen Chaparral Lite, Coachmen Spirit Travel, East To West Alta, model years 2021 to 2023. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 13 April 2023. 2,616 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2021 Forester 2401BSD, FR3 F3A32DSF, Georgetown GTA36K7, 2022-2023 East to West Entrada, 2023 East to West Alta, Coachmen Apex, Brookstone, Chaparral and Chaparral Lite, Forest River Crusader, Sanibel, Shasta Phoenix, Coachmen Spirit, and East to West Tandara …
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: 51-1607. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V262 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 23V262 cover?
- Coachmen Apex, Coachmen Brookstone, Coachmen Chaparral, Coachmen Chaparral Lite, Coachmen Spirit Travel, East To West Alta, East To West Entrada, East To West Tandara, model years 2021-2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2021 Forester 2401BSD, FR3 F3A32DSF, Georgetown GTA36K7, 2022-2023 East to West Entrada, 2023 East to West Alta, Coachmen Apex, Brookstone, Chaparral and Chaparral Lite, Forest River Crusader, Sanibel, Shasta Phoenix, Coachmen Spirit, and East...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Loose hardware can cause the solar panels to detach from the vehicle during transit, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install additional hardware to the existing panel and install a secondary holding bracket, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 5, 2023.
- 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 51-1607, 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: “Loose hardware can cause the solar panels to detach from the vehicle during transit, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V262 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 April 2023 |
| Model years | 2021-2023 |
| Vehicles named | COACHMEN APEX, COACHMEN BROOKSTONE, COACHMEN CHAPARRAL, COACHMEN CHAPARRAL LITE, COACHMEN SPIRIT TRAVEL, EAST TO WEST ALTA, EAST TO WEST ENTRADA, EAST TO WEST TANDARA, FOREST RIVER FORESTER, FOREST RIVER FR3, FOREST RIVER GEORGETOWN, PRIME TIME CRUSADER, PRIME TIME SANIBEL, SHASTA PHOENIX |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Loose hardware can cause the solar panels to detach from the vehicle during transit, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will install additional hardware to the existing panel and install a secondary holding bracket, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 5, 2023. Owners may contact East to West Alta, Entrada and Tandara customer service at 1-574-264-6664; Coachmen Apex and Spirit customer service at 1-574-825-8205; Coachmen Brookstone, Chaparral, Chaparral Lite, and Shasta Phoenix customer service at 1-574-825-7101; Crusader and Sanibel customer service at 1-574-862-1025; and Georgetown Forester and FR3 customer service at 1-574-206-7600. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-1607.
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.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2023217, recorded 13 April 2023 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 511607, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Coachmen Apex recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Coachmen Brookstone recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Coachmen Chaparral recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Coachmen Chaparral Lite recalls: 5 US campaigns
- East To West Alta recalls: 8 US campaigns
- East To West Entrada recalls: 8 US campaigns
- East To West Tandara recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Forest River Forester recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Forest River FR3 recalls: 13 US campaigns
- Forest River Georgetown recalls: 24 US campaigns
- Prime Time Crusader recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Prime Time Sanibel recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Shasta Phoenix recalls: 8 US campaigns
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 23V262 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e5befc62 - Consequence
38e1eac3 - Remedy
6596f06a
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 23V262 · how the whole register is watched
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