2014 Forest River FR3-30DS

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the structure › body. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Visibility/Wiper1
000
Structure › Body1
000
Service Brakes1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Visibility/Wiper
Filed Jan 12, 201614,000 milesTX

THE HEADLIGHTS ON THESE FR3 30DS CLASS A MOTORHOMES ARE INADEQUATE FOR NIGHT DRIVING. THERE IS A SAFETY ISSUE INVOLVED WHILE DRIVING WITH IMPAIRED VISIBILITY. THEY NEED TO BE RECALLED AND REPLACED WITH BETTER ILLUMINATION FOR NIGHT DRIVING.

Service Brakes
Filed Dec 4, 201511,256 milesNC

RIGHT FRONT WHEEL BEARING FAILED AT 11,256 MILES. I WAS ALSO TOLD BY FORD THE LEFT FRONT WHEEL BEARING WAS REPLACED PRIOR TO PURCHASING VEHICLE AT 5K MILES. I WAS LUCKY I WAS NOT KILLED. I WAS DRIVING AT 60MPH HEARD A LOUD NOISE THOUGHT I HAD A BLOWOUT. WHEN I STOPPED AND RAISED THE VEHICLE THE TIRE WAS WOBBLING.IT TOOK 30DAYS TO GET THE PART FROM ASSEMBLY LINE.

Structure › Body
Filed Nov 10, 201517,000 milesFL

THE INNER DOOR HANDLE ON THE ONLY EXIT DOOR BROKEN DUE TO BEING MADE OF CHEAP POT METAL. PREVENTING EXIT FROM VEHICLE. VEHICLE WAS STATIONARY. COULD HAVE BEEN CATASTROPHIC IF VEHICLE HAD BEEN ON FIRE. POSSIBLE PART # ATWOOD PART NUMBER IS 248333382.

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.