Forest River Bus Champion Bus, Forest River Bus Eldorado, Forest River Bus Elkhart Coach, Forest River Bus Forest River Van, Forest River Bus Glaval Entourage, Forest River Bus Glaval Universal, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Forest River Bus, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 13 November 2025. 592 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River Bus, LLC (Forest River Bus) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Starcraft Starlite, Allstar XL, Allstar, StarTrans Senator II, Mobility Trans Safetbus, Glaval Universal, Forest River Van, Elkhart Coach, Eldorado, Candidate II, 2025 StarTrans Senator II HD, Glaval Entourage, Champion Bus, and 2026 StarTrans …
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: 51-2001. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V780 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 25V780 cover?
- Forest River Bus Champion Bus, Forest River Bus Eldorado, Forest River Bus Elkhart Coach, Forest River Bus Forest River Van, Forest River Bus Glaval Entourage, Forest River Bus Glaval Universal, Forest River Bus Mobility Trans Safetbus, Forest River Bus P/S2, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River Bus, LLC (Forest River Bus) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Starcraft Starlite, Allstar XL, Allstar, StarTrans Senator II, Mobility Trans Safetbus, Glaval Universal, Forest River Van, Elkhart Coach, Eldorado, Candidate II, 2025 StarTrans Senator II HD, Glaval Entourage, Champion Bus,...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An unsecured wheelchair can move during transit, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the retractors as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 9, 2025. Owners may contact Forest River Bus customer service at 1-800-348-7440. Forest River Buses number for this recall is 51-2001.
- 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 51-2001, 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: “An unsecured wheelchair can move during transit, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V780 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River Bus, LLC |
| System at fault | Equipment Adaptive/Mobility:Wheelchair Restraints/Securement:Latch/Anchor: |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 November 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | FOREST RIVER BUS CHAMPION BUS, FOREST RIVER BUS ELDORADO, FOREST RIVER BUS ELKHART COACH, FOREST RIVER BUS FOREST RIVER VAN, FOREST RIVER BUS GLAVAL ENTOURAGE, FOREST RIVER BUS GLAVAL UNIVERSAL, FOREST RIVER BUS MOBILITY TRANS SAFETBUS, FOREST RIVER BUS P/S2, FOREST RIVER BUS SENATOR II, FOREST RIVER BUS SENATOR II HD, FOREST RIVER BUS STARCRAFT ALLSTAR, FOREST RIVER BUS STARCRAFT ALLSTAR XL, FOREST RIVER BUS STARCRAFT STARLITE, FOREST RIVER BUS STARTRANS CANDIDATE II |
What the notice says today
The defect
Forest River Bus, LLC (Forest River Bus) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Starcraft Starlite, Allstar XL, Allstar, StarTrans Senator II, Mobility Trans Safetbus, Glaval Universal, Forest River Van, Elkhart Coach, Eldorado, Candidate II, 2025 StarTrans Senator II HD, Glaval Entourage, Champion Bus, and 2026 StarTrans P/S2 transit buses equipped with certain QRT-Deluxe and QRT-Max wheelchair restraints. The retractors may not lock, preventing the wheelchair from being properly secured.
The consequence
An unsecured wheelchair can move during transit, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the retractors as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 9, 2025. Owners may contact Forest River Bus customer service at 1-800-348-7440. Forest River Buses number for this recall is 51-2001.
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 9f29d18112a3d1c6989bddab20b253a4…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 289 notices in the record whose component field names equipment adaptive/mobility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 36 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 2025623, recorded 13 November 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 512001, 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
- Forest River Bus Champion Bus recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Forest River Bus Glaval Universal recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Forest River Bus Senator Ii recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Forest River Bus Starcraft Allstar recalls: 4 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 25V780, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v780/
The copy quoted above hashes to 9f29d18112a3d1c6989bddab20b253a4…. 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 25V780 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ac442adf - Consequence
dd76bab7 - 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 25V780 · how the whole register is watched
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