Recall Register

Forest River Sunseeker: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 24 recall campaigns for the Forest River Sunseeker, model years 1997 to 2026. NHTSA has 23 complaints on file for this model line. 14 of the 27 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. 20032
  8. 20042
  9. 20051
  10. 20061
  11. 20102
  12. 20111
  13. 20121
  14. 20134
  15. 20144
  16. 20152
  17. 20163
  18. 20172
  19. 20181
  20. 20191
  21. 20204
  22. 20214
  23. 20223
  24. 20235
  25. 20242
  26. 20252
  27. 20261
Forest River Sunseeker: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page100%534
2025 Forest River Sunseeker200%1,225
2024 Forest River Sunseeker200%710
2023 Forest River Sunseeker500%53,815
2022 Forest River Sunseeker300%50,341
2021 Forest River Sunseeker400%2,353
2020 Forest River Sunseeker400%1,690
2019 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page100%471
2018 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page11117%184
2017 Forest River Sunseeker24470%2,012
2016 Forest River Sunseeker31117%2,065
2015 Forest River Sunseeker200%2,052
2014 Forest River Sunseeker41117%10,909
2013 Forest River Sunseeker41117%12,152
2012 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page100%1,585
2011 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page12235%1,585
2010 Forest River Sunseeker200%1,651
2006 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page12235%107,417
2005 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page11117%107,417
2004 Forest River Sunseeker22235%109,427
2003 Forest River Sunseeker23352%235,417
2002 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page13352%128,000
2001 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page100%128,000
2000 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page12235%128,000
1999 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page100%128,000
1998 Forest River Sunseeker NHTSA page100%128,000
1997 Forest River Sunseeker 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

25 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 Sunseeker: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Fuel/Propulsion System1604
Unknown or Other1604
Service Brakes, Hydraulic802
Equipment802
Electrical System802
Tires802
Exterior Lighting802
Structure401
Wheels401
Engine401

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Forest River Sunseeker, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2013, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Forest River Sunseeker, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2016, with 4 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Forest River: all 83 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Forest River Sunseeker: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/forest-river/sunseeker/. 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 Sunseeker model years have the most recall campaigns?
2023 with 5, 2021 with 4, 2020 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Forest River Sunseeker model year has the most complaints?
The 2017 model year, with 4 of the 23 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Forest River Sunseeker name?
Fuel/Propulsion System: 4 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 4 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 2 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Forest River Sunseeker?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.