Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full
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Our database holds 6 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2014 Forest River Rockwood. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
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The tires are hitting the bottom floor if you hit the bumps or pot holes in road and causing the tire to bottom out on the floor of the trailer causing the tires to blow out and wear out prematurely. This was noticed on previous year models…
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 FOREST RIVER ROCKWOOD. THE CONTACT STATED WHILE PULLING THE RV, SHE NOTICED ALL 4 TIRES HAD HOLES ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CAMPER. THE RV WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED AS OF YET. A DEALER WAS NOT CONTACTED. UPON INVESTIGATION, THE CONTACT ASSOCIATED THE FAILURE WITH NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 13V554000 (SUSPENSION, TIRES). THE MANUFACTURER HAD BEEN INFORMED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS UNKNOWN. *LN CONSUMER STATES THAT THERE WAS WATER DAMAGE ON THE FLOOR CAUSED BY THE AXLES RUBBING HOLES UNDERNEATH THE CAMPER. CONSUMER SPOKE TO AN INDEPENDENT REPAIRMAN WHO SAID THAT VEHICLE NEEDS AXLES THAT SUPPORT A HIGHER WEIGHT LIMIT. *DL
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 FOREST RIVER ROCKWOOD CAMPER MODEL 2703WS. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE CAMPER INPUT PLUG CAUGHT FIRE AND CAUSED THE WIRES TO BURN. THE CONTACT INSPECTED THE PLUG HIMSELF AND FOUND THAT THE INPUT PLUG WAS NOT MADE WITH COPPER BRAIDED WIRES, RATHER THE PLUG WAS MADE WITH SOLID LOOSE WIRES, WHICH CAUSED THE PLUG TO BURN. THE CAMPER WAS NOT TAKEN TO A DEALER. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED. THE CAMPER WAS NOT REPAIRED. THERE WAS NO MILEAGE.
THE AXLE BRACKET WELDS ARE FAILING ON BOTH DEXTER 4,000 LB AXLES ON OUR 2014 ROCKWOOD 3025W WINDJAMMER TRAVEL TRAILER FOR THE SECOND TIME. UNDER NORMAL DRIVING CONDITIONS AND WITHIN THE RATED WEIGHT FOR THIS VEHICLE. THE FIRST SET WERE REPLACED UNDER WARRANTY 11/16. ONE YEAR LATER THE SAME FAILURES OCCURRED ON THE REPLACED DEXTER 4,000 # TRAILER AXLES. WE HAVE BEEN DENIED REPLACEMENT AXLES FROM FOREST RIVER FOR THE SECOND OCCURRENCE. AS OBSERVED AT THE LOT OF OUR LOCAL RV DEALER ON 10/27/2017: THIS YEAR'S 2017 FOREST RIVER ROCKWOOD 3025W WINDJAMMER HAS A SET OF DEXTER 5,000 # AXLES.
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 FOREST RIVER ROCKWOOD. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FRONT AXLE WAS FRACTURED. THE RV WAS NOT TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS CONTACTED AT 574-642-2640 AND STATED THAT THEY WOULD SEND THE CONTACT THE WARRANTY FORM. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 50,000.
TRAVEL TRAILER TIRES CRACKED ON SIDE WALLS AND AROUND BEAD. TRAILER NEW IN 2014 LESS THAN 4000 MILES ON TIRES. TIRES LOOSE AIR PRESSURE.
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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