Recall Register

Forest River XLR: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 22 recall campaigns for the Forest River XLR, model years 2003 to 2020. NHTSA has 11 complaints on file for this model line. 8 of the 18 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. 20031
  2. 20041
  3. 20051
  4. 20061
  5. 20071
  6. 20081
  7. 20091
  8. 20101
  9. 20111
  10. 20122
  11. 20135
  12. 20146
  13. 20158
  14. 20166
  15. 20176
  16. 20188
  17. 20192
  18. 20201
Forest River XLR: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2020 Forest River XLR NHTSA page100%5
2019 Forest River XLR200%3,517
2018 Forest River XLR81164%370,758
2017 Forest River XLR600%368,141
2016 Forest River XLR61164%370,404
2015 Forest River XLR81164%370,504
2014 Forest River XLR62327%378,763
2013 Forest River XLR500%378,168
2012 Forest River XLR23491%366,374
2011 Forest River XLR NHTSA page12327%365,885
2010 Forest River XLR NHTSA page100%365,885
2009 Forest River XLR NHTSA page11164%365,885
2008 Forest River XLR NHTSA page100%365,885
2007 Forest River XLR NHTSA page100%365,885
2006 Forest River XLR NHTSA page100%365,885
2005 Forest River XLR NHTSA page100%365,885
2004 Forest River XLR NHTSA page100%365,885
2003 Forest River XLR NHTSA page100%365,885

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

13 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 XLR: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure307.74
Suspension230.83
Tires153.82
Latches/Locks/Linkages76.91
Unknown or Other76.91
Wheels76.91
Electrical System76.91

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Forest River XLR, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2017, with 7 campaigns.
Complaints about the Forest River XLR, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2015, with 5 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Forest River: all 83 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Forest River XLR: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/forest-river/xlr/. 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 XLR model years have the most recall campaigns?
2018 with 8, 2015 with 8, 2017 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Forest River XLR model year has the most complaints?
The 2012 model year, with 3 of the 11 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Forest River XLR name?
Structure: 4 component mentions. Suspension: 3 component mentions. Tires: 2 component mentions.