Recall Register

Forest River Sandpiper: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 18 recall campaigns for the Forest River Sandpiper, model years 1997 to 2027. NHTSA has 25 complaints on file for this model line. 13 of the 28 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. 20043
  9. 20052
  10. 20062
  11. 20071
  12. 20081
  13. 20091
  14. 20103
  15. 20112
  16. 20121
  17. 20132
  18. 20143
  19. 20153
  20. 20162
  21. 20171
  22. 20182
  23. 20191
  24. 20211
  25. 20222
  26. 20242
  27. 20251
  28. 20271
Forest River Sandpiper: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2027 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page100%804
2025 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page100%4,179
2024 Forest River Sandpiper200%4,219
2022 Forest River Sandpiper200%69,206
2021 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page100%18
2019 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page100%935
2018 Forest River Sandpiper200%365,910
2017 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page11112%365,885
2016 Forest River Sandpiper22224%366,092
2015 Forest River Sandpiper300%366,781
2014 Forest River Sandpiper300%375,618
2013 Forest River Sandpiper200%375,411
2012 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page100%365,885
2011 Forest River Sandpiper22224%365,977
2010 Forest River Sandpiper32224%366,089
2009 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page12224%365,885
2008 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page100%365,885
2007 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page100%365,885
2006 Forest River Sandpiper23336%473,302
2005 Forest River Sandpiper24448%473,302
2004 Forest River Sandpiper32224%475,509
2003 Forest River Sandpiper300%601,302
2002 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page11112%128,000
2001 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page14448%128,000
2000 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page12224%128,000
1999 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page100%128,000
1998 Forest River Sandpiper NHTSA page100%128,000
1997 Forest River Sandpiper 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

33 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 Sandpiper: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure333.311
Electrical System181.86
Equipment151.55
Tires121.24
Suspension60.62
Exterior Lighting60.62
Trailer Hitches30.31
Seats30.31
Unknown or Other30.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Forest River Sandpiper, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2015, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Forest River Sandpiper, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 5 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Forest River: all 83 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Forest River Sandpiper: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/forest-river/sandpiper/. 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
15 May 2019
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 Sandpiper model years have the most recall campaigns?
2015 with 3, 2014 with 3, 2010 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Forest River Sandpiper model year has the most complaints?
The 2001 model year, with 4 of the 25 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Forest River Sandpiper name?
Structure: 11 component mentions. Electrical System: 6 component mentions. Equipment: 5 component mentions.