Recall Register

Forest River Cherokee: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 35 recall campaigns for the Forest River Cherokee, model years 1997 to 2026. NHTSA has 8 complaints on file for this model line. 20 of the 30 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19971
  2. 19981
  3. 19991
  4. 20001
  5. 20011
  6. 20021
  7. 20033
  8. 20042
  9. 20052
  10. 20062
  11. 20072
  12. 20082
  13. 20092
  14. 20102
  15. 20112
  16. 20121
  17. 20133
  18. 20143
  19. 20152
  20. 20163
  21. 20176
  22. 20188
  23. 20196
  24. 20207
  25. 20213
  26. 20226
  27. 20231
  28. 20241
  29. 20254
  30. 20261
Forest River Cherokee: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Forest River Cherokee NHTSA page100%247
2025 Forest River Cherokee400%4,278
2024 Forest River Cherokee NHTSA page100%4,179
2023 Forest River Cherokee NHTSA page100%70
2022 Forest River Cherokee600%169,518
2021 Forest River Cherokee300%108,482
2020 Forest River Cherokee700%14,632
2019 Forest River Cherokee600%13,278
2018 Forest River Cherokee800%373,865
2017 Forest River Cherokee600%370,097
2016 Forest River Cherokee300%369,873
2015 Forest River Cherokee200%369,182
2014 Forest River Cherokee300%375,430
2013 Forest River Cherokee300%375,430
2012 Forest River Cherokee NHTSA page100%365,885
2011 Forest River Cherokee200%366,464
2010 Forest River Cherokee200%366,464
2009 Forest River Cherokee200%366,464
2008 Forest River Cherokee200%366,464
2007 Forest River Cherokee200%366,464
2006 Forest River Cherokee22750%473,302
2005 Forest River Cherokee21375%473,302
2004 Forest River Cherokee21375%473,302
2003 Forest River Cherokee31375%601,302
2002 Forest River Cherokee NHTSA page100%128,000
2001 Forest River Cherokee NHTSA page100%128,000
2000 Forest River Cherokee NHTSA page12750%128,000
1999 Forest River Cherokee NHTSA page11375%128,000
1998 Forest River Cherokee NHTSA page100%128,000
1997 Forest River Cherokee NHTSA page100%128,000

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

10 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Forest River Cherokee: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Equipment5005
Structure2002
Tires2002
Power Train1001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Forest River Cherokee, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 6 campaigns.
Complaints about the Forest River Cherokee, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2009, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Forest River: all 83 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Forest River Cherokee: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/forest-river/cherokee/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
FOREST RIVER, INC.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Forest River Cherokee model years have the most recall campaigns?
2018 with 8, 2020 with 7, 2022 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Forest River Cherokee model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 2 of the 8 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Forest River Cherokee name?
Equipment: 5 component mentions. Structure: 2 component mentions. Tires: 2 component mentions.