Forest River Salem, Forest River Wildwood, model years 2026 to 2027. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 8 July 2026. 18 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2026-2027 Wildwood and Salem travel trailers. The Federal Placard may have the incorrect Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR). As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 120, "Wheels and Rims …
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: 04-2075. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V439 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 26V439 cover?
- Forest River Salem, Forest River Wildwood, model years 2026-2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2026-2027 Wildwood and Salem travel trailers. The Federal Placard may have the incorrect Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR).
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Referencing the incorrect GVWR may lead to unintentionally overloading the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install a new corrected label, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 22, 2026. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-574-534-3167. Forest River's number for this recall 04-2075.
- 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 04-2075, 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: “Referencing the incorrect GVWR may lead to unintentionally overloading the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V439 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Other:Labels |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2027 |
| Vehicles named | FOREST RIVER SALEM, FOREST RIVER WILDWOOD |
What the notice says today
The defect
Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2026-2027 Wildwood and Salem travel trailers. The Federal Placard may have the incorrect Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR). As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 120, "Wheels and Rims - Other than Passenger Cars."
The consequence
Referencing the incorrect GVWR may lead to unintentionally overloading the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will install a new corrected label, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 22, 2026. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-574-534-3167. Forest River's number for this recall 04-2075.
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 e6ab8b54e9b960e04ee0b1d9df1f9393…, 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 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 26V439, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v439/
The copy quoted above hashes to e6ab8b54e9b960e04ee0b1d9df1f9393…. 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
- 26V398: 2025-2026 NOBO, Ibex, and 2025-2027 RPOD recreational trailers
- 26V390: 2023-2024 XLR Toy Hauler 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 26V439 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
641b7909 - Consequence
d76c4c41 - 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 26V439 · how the whole register is watched
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