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Forest River Tsunami Recalls & Complaints by Model Year

NHTSA lists 6 safety recalls and 2 owner complaints across 12 model years of the Forest River Tsunami (1997–2008). The most-complained-about year is 2005.

6
safety recalls, all years
2
owner complaints, all years
2003
year with most recalls
2005
year with most complaints

Pick your Forest River Tsunami model year

Model yearRecallsComplaints
2008 Forest River Tsunami10
2007 Forest River Tsunami10
2006 Forest River Tsunami30
2005 Forest River Tsunami42
2004 Forest River Tsunami40
2003 Forest River Tsunami50
2002 Forest River Tsunami40
2001 Forest River Tsunami30
2000 Forest River Tsunami20
1999 Forest River Tsunami10
1998 Forest River Tsunami10
1997 Forest River Tsunami10

What Forest River Tsunami owners complain about

Across all model years, owners have filed 2 complaints with NHTSA. The 2005 model year has the most, with 2.

All Forest River Tsunami recalls (6)

Every NHTSA safety campaign that lists a Forest River Tsunami, most recent first, with the model years each one covers.

  1. Recreational vehicle/trailer (equipment)

    NHTSA 11V152000 Reported 38 vehicles potentially affected FOREST RIVER, INC.

    Forest river is recalling certain recreational vehicles equipped with 1200-series norcold refrigerators. The population of refrigerators being addressed contains either a sensing algorithm or thermal switch to shut off power to the refrigerator when high temperatures are detected in order to prevent a potential fire. The response times…

    Remedy: Forest river is working with norcold to identify and notify any affected owners. Owners will be instructed to contact norcold dealers to receive the remedy free of charge. Please see norcold's defect report 10e-049 for…

    Model years: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

  2. Recreational vehicle/trailer (equipment)

    NHTSA 08V346000 Reported 107,417 vehicles potentially affected FOREST RIVER, INC.

    Forest river is recalling certain my 2003-2006 motor homes, fifth wheel and travel trailers equipped with a two-door refrigerator manufactured by the dometic corporation. The refrigerator 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.

    Remedy: Forest river is working with dometic to repair these refrigerators (please see 08e032). Dometic will repair these refrigerators by installing a secondary burn housing, a thermal fuse, and a melt fuse free of charge.…

    Model years: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

  3. Recreational vehicle/trailer (equipment)

    NHTSA 08V277000 Reported 1 vehicles potentially affected FOREST RIVER, INC.

    Forest river is recalling 1 my 2001 tsunami class a diesel pusher motor home motor homes equipped with a norcold refrigerator. A fatigue failure in the section of the cooling unit which contains the refrigerant could allow the liquid solution to slowly leak.

    Remedy: Forest river is working with norcold to repair these refrigerators. Norcold will provide thermal switch kits to owners along with the necessary forms and instructions. The recall is expected to begin during july or…

    Model years: 2001

  4. Shaft pitman (steering)

    NHTSA 08V067000 Reported 89 vehicles potentially affected FOREST RIVER, INC.

    Forest river is recalling 89 my 2003-2008 tsunami motor homes built on freightliner chassis and equipped with zf model 8018 steering gears. These gears may have been assembled with the incorrect recirculating ball spacer. This could potentially allow the recirculation balls to escape from the recirculation ball circuit resulting in a…

    Remedy: Forest river is working with freightliner and zf to replace the steering gear (please see 07v343 and 07e049). Owners may contact freightliner at 1-800-547-0712 or forest river at 1-574-389-4600.

    Model years: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

  5. Recreational vehicle/trailer (equipment)

    NHTSA 07V085000 Reported 128,000 vehicles potentially affected FOREST RIVER, INC.

    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.

    Remedy: 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…

    Model years: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003

  6. Water heater (equipment)

    NHTSA 05V234000 Reported FOREST RIVER, INC.

    On certain motor homes equipped with vehicle systems' aqua-hot and hydro-hot water heaters, which use webasto burner tubes, the burner tubes do not meet specifications and could fail prematurely.

    Remedy: Vehicle systems is conducting the owner notification and remedy for this campaign. Owners may contact vehicle systems at 1-800-685-4298 or forest river at 574-522-1583.

    Model years: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

Other Forest River models

Source: NHTSA recall and complaint databases and EPA fuel economy data, October 2026. Complaint counts are owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects. Recall counts are safety campaigns that list this model year; whether a particular car was already repaired depends on its VIN. How this data is compiled.