Model year report

2015 Forest River Shasta: what breaks, and at what mileage

What breaks on the 2015 Forest River Shasta

On the 2015 Forest River Shasta, the failure owners report most often is other body or interior problem, and the reports cluster around 100 miles. The earliest to appear is other suspension problem, reported by a median of 100 miles. Overall it scores 78 out of 100, severe risk for a 2015.

Severe risk for a 2015 — 36th riskiest of the 273 2015 vehicles we can rate. 83 owner reports; fleet size estimated from this year's own recall paperwork.

The failures owners actually file about

Owners have reported 8 named failure modes on the 2015 Forest River Shasta, and the three most-reported carry 69% of everything filed, so the trouble here is concentrated rather than scattered.

Other body or interior problem leads with 27 reports, about 675 per 1,000 vehicles and with the middle half of reports between 84 to 600 miles.

Other wheel or tire problem follows with 16 reports, usually reported between 67 to 800 miles.

Other suspension problem follows with 14 reports, usually reported between 50 to 100 miles.

By system, the reports fall mostly into body (29), wheels (17) and suspension (14).

The mileage the reports cluster at

54 of the reports on the 2015 Forest River Shasta came with an odometer reading, and half of those were filed before 100 miles.

The busiest stretch is between 0 and 10,000 miles, which alone holds 100% of the dated reports.

100% of the dated reports were filed below 36,000 miles, which is early enough that a fair number of these cars were still under a factory warranty when the owner complained.

In the order they tend to show up: other suspension problem around 84, other body or interior problem around 135 and other wheel or tire problem around 135.

Median

Other body or interior problem

135
Other wheel or tire problem

135
Other suspension problem

84
Rust or structural corrosion

300
Other electrical problem

279
Tire blowout or tread separation

8k
Other lighting problem
no odometer readings given
—
Other visibility problem

20

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

How reports accumulate

Share of reports filed by each mileage

half by 135

Every report with an odometer reading, cumulative, from 0 to 200,000 miles. A curve that climbs early is a car with early problems, whatever its total.

Line share of reports filed by that mileage
Dashed the median reported mileage

What happens when these parts fail

Across the named modes, 2 an injury. Those are the words owners used in their own complaints, and NHTSA does not verify them, but they are the closest thing in this data to a measure of what a failure actually did.

The average severity weight across every report on this year is 2.78, where a stalled engine or a failed airbag weighs many times more than a rattling trim panel. The weighting is set out in full on the methodology page.

What the top failures cost to put right, as editorial estimates for an independent US shop rather than figures from NHTSA: other body or interior problem at $200–$2,000, other wheel or tire problem at $200–$1,500, other suspension problem at $350–$2,000 and rust or structural corrosion at $500–$6,000. Dealer labour, a seized bolt or a part that is no longer made can push any of these past the top of its range.

Every reported failure mode

Mileage figures are percentiles of owner-reported readings. Click a column to sort.
Failure mode	System	Reports	With reading	25th	Median	75th	Per 1,000	Typical repair	Severity
Other body or interior problem	body	27	16	84	135	639	675.0	$200–$2,000	Moderate
Other wheel or tire problem	wheels	16	11	67	135	800	400.0	$200–$1,500	High
Other suspension problem	suspension	14	9	50	84	135	350.0	$350–$2,000	Moderate
Rust or structural corrosion	body	2	2	—	300	—	50.0	$500–$6,000	High
Other electrical problem	electrical	2	1	—	279	—	50.0	$250–$2,000	Moderate
Tire blowout or tread separation	wheels	1	1	—	8k	—	25.0	$200–$1,500	Critical
Other lighting problem	lighting	1	0	—	—	—	25.0	$120–$1,200	Moderate
Other visibility problem	glass	1	1	—	20	—	25.0	$150–$1,400	Moderate
Unclassified problem	other	19	13	50	135	394	475.0	—	Moderate

Rate per 1,000 uses a fleet-size estimate derived from recall paperwork for this exact model year. It is a lower bound. Repair costs are typical independent-shop ranges for the failure, not figures from these reports.

How often, against how many were built

Scaled by an estimate of how many of these cars exist, the 2015 Forest River Shasta draws about 2,075 per 1,000 vehicles, which puts it in the 100th percentile of complaint rates among 2015 vehicles we can rate.

That denominator is the weakest number on the page and it is fair to say so plainly. Rate per 1,000 uses a fleet-size estimate derived from recall paperwork for this exact model year. It is a lower bound.

The working figure is 40 vehicles. If the true number is twice that, every rate on this page is half what it says; the ranking against other 2015 vehicles, which is what the risk score uses, is far more robust than the rate itself.

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The odometer reading is the one the owner gave.

Recalls on the 2015 model year

NHTSA has issued 1 recall campaign covering the 2015 Forest River Shasta, affecting an estimated 40 vehicles. A recall is a different kind of evidence from a complaint: it is the regulator and the manufacturer agreeing that something has to be fixed, and the fix is free for as long as the car exists.

The campaigns cover equipment:other:labels. Whether the work was actually done on the car in front of you is a question only the VIN can answer, and the manufacturer or NHTSA will answer it free.

Recalls also distort complaint counts. Publicity about a campaign reminds owners that complaining is possible, so reports for a recalled component often spike after the recall rather than before it.

15V303000

EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS

120 vehicles 2015-05-22

Defect: Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain model year 2013-2015 Coachmen Shasta SHT27RL travel trailers manufactured May 7, 2013, to May 7, 2015. The affected trailers may have an incorrect gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) information stated on the Federal Weight Tags. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of 49 CFR Part 567, "Certification."
Consequence: Incorrect GVWR information on the label may lead the operator to load the trailer to an incorrect weight, increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.
Remedy: Forest River will notify owners, and dealers will replace the incorrect label with a corrected label, free of charge. The recall began on June 23, 2015. Owners may contact Forest River customer service at 1-574-825-8717. Forest River's number for this recall is 53-05132015-0035.

Recall work is free at a franchised dealer regardless of the car's age. Check the VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls before assuming it was done.

How it ranks in the 2015 field

The score at the top of the page, placed among its peers. The zones are the same thresholds the scorer applies, read out of the scorer itself, so the picture and the band word cannot disagree.

Risk score against the rest of the 2015 field

Scores are ranked within the model year, never across years, because an older car has had longer to accumulate reports.

Left fewer and less serious reports
Right more, or worse
Marker this vehicle

Where 2015 sits in the model line

Severe risk for a 2015 — 36th riskiest of the 273 2015 vehicles we can rate. The comparison is always within the same model year, so an older car is never penalised for having had longer to break.

Scores compare each year against other cars of the same model year, so a low number on an older car is a real result and not an artefact of age.

Risk score by model year, out of 100

Shorter is better. Years with too few reports to score are shown without a bar rather than as a zero, because no data is not good news.

What to look at before buying one

The mileages below are where the first quarter of reports for each mode had already been filed, which makes them the point at which a fault is worth looking for rather than the point at which it happens: other suspension problem from about 50, other wheel or tire problem from about 67 and other body or interior problem from about 84.

On a 2015 Forest River Shasta with more miles than that on it, the useful question to put to a seller or a mechanic is whether other suspension problem has been dealt with, and if so with what parts and at whose expense. A car that has already had the repair is in a different position from one that has not.

None of this is a diagnosis. It is a list of what other owners of the same model year reported, ordered by when they reported it, which is a good place to point an inspection and a poor place to stop.

What this page cannot tell you

83 owner reports; fleet size estimated from this year's own recall paperwork. Every count on this page is therefore a floor: it is the number of owners who went to the trouble of filing with a federal agency, which is a small and self-selected fraction of the owners who had the fault.

Of those 83 reports, 54 carried an odometer reading, so the mileages here describe 65% of the sample rather than all of it. Owners also round: readings pile up on multiples of ten thousand, which is why this site publishes "about 90,000 miles" and not "91,438".

Named failure modes come from matching phrases in the complaint text, so a badly worded complaint can land in the wrong bucket. The effect washes out across hundreds of reports and does not wash out across five.

And nothing here predicts what one car will do. These are other people's complaints, filed years apart, on cars maintained by strangers. Read the page as a map of where this model year has previously gone wrong, then have the specific car in front of you inspected.

Questions this page answers

What are the most common problems with the 2015 Forest River Shasta?

The most-reported failures are other body or interior problem (27 reports, median 100 miles), other wheel or tire problem (16 reports, median 100 miles) and other suspension problem (14 reports, median 100 miles). Counts come from owner complaints filed with NHTSA, which are voluntary, so they show what owners bothered to report rather than every fault that occurred.

At what mileage do 2015 Forest River Shasta problems start?

Other suspension problem is the earliest failure mode to show up, with a median reported mileage of 100 miles and a quarter of reports before 100 miles. Across all failure modes on this year, the median report sits at 100 miles.

Is the 2015 Forest River Shasta reliable?

It scores 78 out of 100 on our risk index, which is severe — 36th riskiest of the 273 2015 vehicles we can rate. The score is a comparison against other 2015 vehicles, not a prediction about any individual car, and it is built from complaint rates, severity and how early failures appear.

Where this comes from. Every figure above is computed from NHTSA owner complaints and recall records for this exact make, model and year. Complaints are voluntary and self-selected, so treat counts as a floor. The methodology page writes out each formula, and the same numbers are available as JSON.

What breaks at my mileage Compare with another car

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt 20 August 2026 Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed