Coachmen Catalina, Forest River Aurora, Forest River Campsite Reserve, Forest River Cascade, Forest River Cedar Creek, Forest River Cherokee, model years 2024 to 2025. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 14 April 2025. 4,179 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Coachmen Catalina, Forest River Aurora, Cascade, Cedar Creek, Cherokee, Sandpiper, Sierra, 2025 Campsite Reserve, Impression, Pause, Puma, Sabre, Salem, Vengeance, and Wildwood fifth wheel and travel trailers, equipped with a removable step assembly. The …
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: 51-1915. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V245 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 25V245 cover?
- Coachmen Catalina, Forest River Aurora, Forest River Campsite Reserve, Forest River Cascade, Forest River Cedar Creek, Forest River Cherokee, Forest River Impression, Forest River Pause, model years 2024-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Coachmen Catalina, Forest River Aurora, Cascade, Cedar Creek, Cherokee, Sandpiper, Sierra, 2025 Campsite Reserve, Impression, Pause, Puma, Sabre, Salem, Vengeance, and Wildwood fifth wheel and travel trailers, equipped with a...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Steps that detach while in use increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and repair or replace the clip-on bracket as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 28, 2025.
- 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 51-1915, 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: “Steps that detach while in use increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V245 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Structure:Body:Step/Ladder |
| Reported to NHTSA | 14 April 2025 |
| Model years | 2024-2025 |
| Vehicles named | COACHMEN CATALINA, FOREST RIVER AURORA, FOREST RIVER CAMPSITE RESERVE, FOREST RIVER CASCADE, FOREST RIVER CEDAR CREEK, FOREST RIVER CHEROKEE, FOREST RIVER IMPRESSION, FOREST RIVER PAUSE, FOREST RIVER PUMA, FOREST RIVER SABRE, FOREST RIVER SALEM, FOREST RIVER SANDPIPER, FOREST RIVER SIERRA, FOREST RIVER VENGEANCE |
What the notice says today
The defect
Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Coachmen Catalina, Forest River Aurora, Cascade, Cedar Creek, Cherokee, Sandpiper, Sierra, 2025 Campsite Reserve, Impression, Pause, Puma, Sabre, Salem, Vengeance, and Wildwood fifth wheel and travel trailers, equipped with a removable step assembly. The clip-on bracket mounting bolts may come loose, allowing the steps to detach.
The consequence
Steps that detach while in use increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and repair or replace the clip-on bracket as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 28, 2025. Owners may contact customer service at Aurora & Catalina (1-574-825-4995), Campsite Reserve, Cascade, Cherokee, Sabre, Vengeance (1-260-499-2100), Cedar Creek (1-260-593-4000), Impression (1-574-327-2716), Pause (1-574-327-2681), Puma (1-574-642-0588), Sierra & Sandpiper (1-574-534-4574), and Salem & Wildwood (1-574-534-3167). Forest River's number for this recall is 51-1915.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 15 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 31dcfc1bd971a76479bd5ba8711ae5be…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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 2025203, recorded 14 April 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 511915, 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 Catalina recalls: 28 US campaigns
- Forest River Aurora recalls: 13 US campaigns
- Forest River Campsite Reserve recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Forest River Cascade recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Forest River Cedar Creek recalls: 15 US campaigns
- Forest River Cherokee recalls: 33 US campaigns
- Forest River Impression recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Forest River Pause recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Forest River Puma recalls: 18 US campaigns
- Forest River Sabre recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Forest River Salem recalls: 59 US campaigns
- Forest River Sandpiper recalls: 14 US campaigns
- Forest River Sierra recalls: 13 US campaigns
- Forest River Vengeance recalls: 17 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 25V245, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v245/
The copy quoted above hashes to 31dcfc1bd971a76479bd5ba8711ae5be…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 25V245 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
2318ea8a - Consequence
a2cfcbb5 - 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 25V245 · how the whole register is watched
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