Forest River Salem, Forest River Wildwood, model years 2024 to 2025. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 28 June 2024. 573 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Salem, and Wildwood travel trailers. The affected vehicles may not have a secondary emergency exit installed.
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 River's own number for this recall: 72-1805. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V490 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 24V490 cover?
- Forest River Salem, Forest River Wildwood, model years 2024-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Salem, and Wildwood travel trailers. The affected vehicles may not have a secondary emergency exit installed.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- In the event of an emergency, passengers may not be able to exit the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install an emergency exit window, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 26, 2024. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 574-534-3167. Forest River's number for this recall is 72-1805.
- 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 72-1805, 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: “In the event of an emergency, passengers may not be able to exit the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V490 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Structure:Emergency:Escape/Egress/Exit |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 June 2024 |
| Model years | 2024-2025 |
| Vehicles named | FOREST RIVER SALEM, FOREST RIVER WILDWOOD |
What the notice says today
The consequence
In the event of an emergency, passengers may not be able to exit the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will install an emergency exit window, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 26, 2024. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 574-534-3167. Forest River's number for this recall is 72-1805.
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 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 2024374, recorded 28 June 2024 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 721805, 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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 24V490, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v490/
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
- 26V586: 2027 Salem and Wildwood travel trailers
- 26V585: 2019-2022 Lone Star Vans built on Ram ProMaster chassis
- 26V563: 2027 Vibe recreational trailers
- 26V503: 2027 Leprechaun and Freelander recreational
- 26V477: 2026-2027 Pause travel trailers, and OG Luxury Coach recreational
- 26V476: 2027 Unmapped, Sabre, No Boundaries, Ibex, Surveyor, Sierra, and Sandpiper travel trailers
- 26V439: 2026-2027 Wildwood and Salem travel trailers
- 26V398: 2025-2026 NOBO, Ibex, and 2025-2027 RPOD recreational trailers
All 549 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 24V490 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
fd0cf753 - Consequence
9ccc5c66 - 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.
The wording we hold for 24V490 · 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 Forest River Wildwood, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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