Forest River Xlr Toyhauler, model year 2021. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 24 October 2025. 1,868 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2021 XLR Toy Hauler travel trailers. The mounting brackets may be improperly located or secured, allowing the fresh water tank to detach when full.
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: 45-1997. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V727 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 25V727 cover?
- Forest River XLR Toyhauler, model year 2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2021 XLR Toy Hauler travel trailers. The mounting brackets may be improperly located or secured, allowing the fresh water tank to detach when full.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A detached water thank can create a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and add securements to the tank as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 12, 2025. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-574-642-0432. Forest River's number for this recall is 45-1997.
- 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 45-1997, 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: “A detached water thank can create a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V727 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer:Plumbing:Potable Water |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 October 2025 |
| Model years | 2021-2021 |
| Vehicles named | FOREST RIVER XLR TOYHAULER |
What the notice says today
The defect
Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2021 XLR Toy Hauler travel trailers. The mounting brackets may be improperly located or secured, allowing the fresh water tank to detach when full.
The consequence
A detached water thank can create a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and add securements to the tank as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 12, 2025. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-574-642-0432. Forest River's number for this recall is 45-1997.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 44dfdf484749a9fb38b113962020ecca…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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 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 2025581, recorded 24 October 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 451997, 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 25V727, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v727/
The copy quoted above hashes to 44dfdf484749a9fb38b113962020ecca…. 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.
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 25V727 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f568ffc5 - Consequence
67eb272a - 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 25V727 · how the whole register is watched
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