Forest River Wildwood 2002

Model Wildwood made in 2002 by Forest River got 6 consumer complains there are 2 investigations as well as 1 recall. Consumer complaints with reference, among others things, to equipment, suspension and tires. The car had some investigations: tires, wheels. There was one recall concerning equipment .

Wildwood year 2002

Recalls
Defect investigations
Consumer Complaints

Model 2002

Recalls

Campaign	Manufacturer	Type	# of units affected	Date Owner notified Mfg	Recall Initiated by	Manufacturers of recalled vehicles/products	Report Recieved Date	Record Creation Date
EQUIPMENT - RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
07V085000	FOREST RIVER, INC.	V (Vehicle)	128000	11/13/2007	MFR	FOREST RIVER, INC.	03/05/2007	03/07/2007
Defect Summary	Certain recreational vehicles equipped with a two-door refrigerator, manufactured by the dometic corporation, may have a defect in the boiler tube. pressurized coolant solution could be released into an area where an ignition source (gas flame) is present.
Consequence Summary	Release of coolant under certain conditions could ignite and result in a fire.
Corrective Summary	Forest river will be working with dometic in order to repair these refrigerators (please see 06e076). dometic will repair these refrigerators by installing a secondary burn housing, a thermal fuse, and a melt fuse free of charge. dometic has retained stericycle inc. to manage this campaign. stericycle will assist you in locating dealerships or service centers and will provide assistance with scheduling of appointments. owners may contact dometic/stericycle at 1-888-446-5157 or forest river at 1-574-389-4600,
Notes	Customers may contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty: 1-800-424-9153); or go to http://www.safercar.gov.

Investigations

NHTSA ID	Manufacturer	Date open	Date close	Subject
TIRES - TREAD/BELT
PE02065	FOREST RIVER, INC.	09/06/2002	01/09/2003	ROAD WHEEL & TIRE FAILURES
	The subject trailers are fitted with a large decal instructing owners to notify the wheel & tire manufacturer in case of problems or failures of wheels or tires.this action is to be taken in lieu of contacting the manufacturer of the trailers.the tire and wheel manufacturer, calisle wheel & tire in this case, has agreed to this arrangement and further agreed to handleall tire and wheel problems.the manufacturer of the subject trailer instructs anyone contacting them with wheel/tire problems to contact carisle.according to forest river, carisle has also made this arrangement with several other trailer manufacturers.in order to discover the total number of complaints involving forest river and any additional manufacturers that also use carisle wheels and tires, this investigation is being closed and an investigation into carisle wheel & tire will be initiated.
WHEELS
PE02065	FOREST RIVER, INC.	09/06/2002	01/09/2003	ROAD WHEEL & TIRE FAILURES
	The subject trailers are fitted with a large decal instructing owners to notify the wheel & tire manufacturer in case of problems or failures of wheels or tires.this action is to be taken in lieu of contacting the manufacturer of the trailers.the tire and wheel manufacturer, calisle wheel & tire in this case, has agreed to this arrangement and further agreed to handleall tire and wheel problems.the manufacturer of the subject trailer instructs anyone contacting them with wheel/tire problems to contact carisle.according to forest river, carisle has also made this arrangement with several other trailer manufacturers.in order to discover the total number of complaints involving forest river and any additional manufacturers that also use carisle wheels and tires, this investigation is being closed and an investigation into carisle wheel & tire will be initiated.

Consumer Complaints

Fail date	miles	occurences	Purchase date
EQUIPMENT
07/23/2008	0	1
	I received a recall notice from forest river, who is the manufacturer of my travel trailer that dometic has found a problem with the refrigerator in my trailer and that there is a potential leak that can develop and cause a fire. after contacting dometic and finding out that my unit is one of the recall units they informed me that i had to take it to the dealer to get it fixed. it is a long way to the dealer or the nearest dealer and i told them i would prefer for them to come out and fix it at my residence. i know they have done mobile repairs at other locations and it would require me to make two trips to a dealer to get it fixed as i would have to drop it at night then come back after the repair is done. at first they said they would come and fix it and then they changed their mind and said no, that i had to take it to the dealer. again i would have to spend a lot of money to take it to a dealer and also take time off from work. i don't feel i should have to since i am not the one who built defective equipment. *tr
EQUIPMENT - RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
07/23/2008	0	1
	I received a recall notice from forest river, who is the manufacturer of my travel trailer that dometic has found a problem with the refrigerator in my trailer and that there is a potential leak that can develop and cause a fire. after contacting dometic and finding out that my unit is one of the recall units they informed me that i had to take it to the dealer to get it fixed. it is a long way to the dealer or the nearest dealer and i told them i would prefer for them to come out and fix it at my residence. i know they have done mobile repairs at other locations and it would require me to make two trips to a dealer to get it fixed as i would have to drop it at night then come back after the repair is done. at first they said they would come and fix it and then they changed their mind and said no, that i had to take it to the dealer. again i would have to spend a lot of money to take it to a dealer and also take time off from work. i don't feel i should have to since i am not the one who built defective equipment. *tr
SUSPENSION - MULTIPLE AXLE
02/20/2005		1	11/17/2002
	I was driving home from a trip in the mojave desert and stopped for fuel at hwy 395 and hwy 58 intersection. i noticed that one of my trailer tires had no tread left on it and that the other one was starting to wear very badly on the outside edge. it was the right rear tire that lost its tread and was loosing air and it was putting excessive stress on the one good tire. it caused excessive wear on the good tire. i replaced the bad tire with the spare and made it home without incident. after some research, i found that the trailer manufacture, forest river, was aware that the axles they put under my trailer were not sufficent enough for a fully loaded trailer. i was told by their customer service department that they did not have a recall on it but that they would replace the axles with a heavier payload axle for $500. the same model of my trailer now comes standard with these heavier axles as standard equipment. the model of my trailer, which is a 37' sierra, was not listed so i used one that the manufacture makes under a different name.
TIRES
07/07/2005		3
	We took our vacation this year and went to canada. when i set up our camper, i noticed we had a tire with a bulge in the side wall. we did find a dealer in canada that handede these tires and got it replaced. the dealer told us that carlslile had lots of problems with the tires we had on our camper. so they replaced the bad one, for a charge. while we were on the way home we had a different tire seperate blow out causing over $1500.00 in damage to our camper, and almost put us in the ditch all togather. when we called in for our road hazard policy, they suggested we remove all the carlisle tires due to many issues similar as ours. i contacted carlisle tire to see if they would do something for us, and i was told they only offer a 2 year warrantee on their tires from the date of manufacture, and could not help me. the problem i have with this is that when we purchased our brand new campr in july 2001 the tires were already 20 months old. this means that they are knowingly putting unsafe tires on rv trailers that they dont have to deal with. i feel this is wrong to allow this and feel there should be a recall on all of the 225x75x15 tires, and they should be held responsible for any and all damages, not our insurance company and myself.
06/15/2004	9000	1	08/16/2002
	Blew carlisle 225x75x15 load range d tire and damaged my trailer. i paid for a replacement tire, and did not seek a replacement from carlisle because the tire was completely destroyed. while at the trailer dealer getting a bid on repairs i found another tire with a separation. i sent this back to carlisle and they sent me a new one. while at a tire dealer having a different brand put on we found another tire with a seperation. i sent this one back and am waiting a new replacement. that is 3 of 4 that were on the ground that separated. there are a lot of people that are having problems with this brand and no other. i think someone needs to look atthe percentage of failures to see if they are in line with industry averages. thanks. frank blum . *ak
TIRES - TREAD/BELT
06/18/2005		1	11/20/2002
	Returning home from new hampshire vacation and was traveling approx. 60 mph when we heard a loud thud and looked in the side mirror and saw that the right front tire cap blew off the tire and ripped off our forest river 36ckss 5th wheel travel trailers fender skirt and damaged the undercarriage of trailer. all 4 tires plus the spare were new on our 2002 travel trailer, they had less than 5000 miles on them. this tire that blew never went flat. this is only the 2nd trip this camper made since new. tire model information: carlisle all country radial a/s, lt235/85r16 , dot hn13001 ad4l we are in the process of contacting the manufacturer carlisle tire to see what they will do for us. it seems that after researching this tire company, they have far too many issues with their tires blowing apart that someone needs to make them accountable. there were no injuries this time, thank god, just a good bit of damage to the trailer which i am sure i will get no reimbursement for. i don't really want to replace this tire with another of theirs. i think they know they have a problem and we as consumers should be reimbursed for the cost of those tires so that we may make the decision of purchasing a more reliable tire.