Model year

2019 Forest River Cardinal

Trailer, Not Applicable, built in United States. Owner complaints on file from Feb 6, 2024 to Feb 6, 2024.

Recall campaigns covering this model year1825 vehicles or units across those campaigns
Owner complaints1Below the median 2019 trailer
Severity index0.02019 trailers average 7.7
First 24 months0Complaints in its first two years
Complaints over time

Complaints about the 2019 Forest River Cardinal peaked in 2024, with 1 filed

Owner complaints about this model year, by the year they were filed with NHTSA.

00.250.50.7512024120252026
Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file. The lighter column runs through October.
Components

100% of complaints about the 2019 Forest River Cardinal name structure

Owner complaints by component. Hover or focus a bar for the crash, fire, injury or death count.

Structure
1
Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file. A complaint can name more than one component; it is counted under the first.
Recalls

One recall campaign covers the 2019 Forest River Cardinal

Check a specific vehicle by VIN on NHTSA's site: a campaign may cover only part of a model year's production.

Recall campaigns for the 2019 Forest River Cardinal
CampaignFiledSubjectComponentVehiclesRemedy
21V-523Jul 9, 2021Adhesive that bonds the vented portion of the window may failEquipment825Part replacement
Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.
Owner complaints

What owners reported about the 2019 Forest River Cardinal

The full text of every complaint filed with NHTSA about this model year, newest first. Complaints are filed by owners and are not verified by NHTSA; NHTSA removes personal details before publishing.

1 complaint on file, page 1 of 1.

  1. Filed Feb 6, 2024Failure Dec 14, 2023Splendora, TXStructure, Unknown or other

    Rv fiberglass is cracking and delaminating because of frame is given to much think they call it frame flexing the fifthwheel hitch Has a lot of frame flexing in it now where before had very little I feel like something is come unwelded and is loose with the hitch contacted Forest River about it they basically told me I was on my own my warranty went out in 2020 this was a $65,000 fifthwheel and have structure failure with and they don’t want to help you or talk to you about it I thought well ok maybe I am one in a million but after researching this somebody should have made lippert frames do a recall on these there all over the internet with the same problems different manufacturers but same frame I contacted them a year when all of this started and they did the same thing then try to brush it off as owners fault please I need some help on this issue

    NHTSA complaint 11570369
Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.
Investigations

NHTSA has not opened an investigation on this model year

Source: NHTSA ODI investigations file.
Service bulletins

No manufacturer communications on file

Technical service bulletins and other notices the manufacturer sent to dealers. A bulletin is not a recall.

Source: NHTSA manufacturer communications files.