Coachmen Adrenaline, Coachmen Chaparral, East To West Takoda, Forest River Cedar Creek, Forest River Riverstone, Forest River Work And Play, model years 2022 to 2026. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 19 January 2026. 515 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2023-2026 Forest River Work and Play, 2024-2026 East to West Takoda, Coachmen Chaparral, 2025-2026 Shasta Phoenix, 2023-2025 Forest River Riverstone, 2022-2026 Coachmen Adrenaline, and 2025 Forest River Cedar Creek fifth wheel travel trailers. The ramp door may …
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: 51-2017. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V020 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A ramp door that breaks during use increases the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V020 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Recreational Vehicle/Trailer |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 January 2026 |
| Model years | 2022-2026 |
| Vehicles named | COACHMEN ADRENALINE, COACHMEN CHAPARRAL, EAST TO WEST TAKODA, FOREST RIVER CEDAR CREEK, FOREST RIVER RIVERSTONE, FOREST RIVER WORK AND PLAY, SHASTA PHOENIX |
What the notice says today
The defect
Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2023-2026 Forest River Work and Play, 2024-2026 East to West Takoda, Coachmen Chaparral, 2025-2026 Shasta Phoenix, 2023-2025 Forest River Riverstone, 2022-2026 Coachmen Adrenaline, and 2025 Forest River Cedar Creek fifth wheel travel trailers. The ramp door may break away from the door frame while loading or unloading vehicles.
The consequence
A ramp door that breaks during use increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will install additional support brackets, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 18, 2026. Owners may contact Coachmen Adrenaline & Work and Play customer service at 1-574-825-6302, Riverstone customer service at 1-260-593-4028, East to West Takoda customer service at 1-574-264-6664, Cedar Creek customer service at 1-260-593-4000, Coachmen Chapparal and Shasta Pheonix customer service at 1-574-825-7101. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-2017.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 10 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 813077cefba10b97c75598a5adb7247c…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 2,630 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 2026013, recorded 19 January 2026 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 512017, 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 Adrenaline recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Coachmen Chaparral recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Forest River Cedar Creek recalls: 15 US campaigns
- Forest River Riverstone recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Forest River Work And Play recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Shasta Phoenix recalls: 8 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 26V020, wording as read on 10 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v020/
The copy quoted above hashes to 813077cefba10b97c75598a5adb7247c…. 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 26V020 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9c8740c7 - Consequence
51828fff - 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 26V020 · how the whole register is watched
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