2015 Forest River Shasta Wheels Problems

“When I got my camper back from Shasta after they had the camper 79 days for repairs. I looked under my camper and I found they just put a few screws in the wheel wells to fix damage from wheels busting the wheel well loose from my camper, and it still has gaps in the wheel wells and exposed screw with the pointed end pointed towards my tire ...”

“I have a travel trailer with 15' white painted steel spoke wheels, after a year one had a air leak where the rim and spokes are welded together, about 6 months later another wheel had the same thing happen, I ended up putting innertubes in them. In sept. Of this year while traveling at 65mph on highway 80 in iowa, we had a wheel/tire failure since we never felt anything when it happened we didn't pull over right away, I thought the noise I heard was a truck passing us but after it passed the noise was still there. …”

“I have a Shasta airflyte reissue. The manufacture put passenger tires on it p225/75r15. They are to have 35 PSI. The sticker says gvw is 3635 lbs. Each tire says max load 1874 lbs. The wheels say max load each 1820 lbs. It is my understanding that it is not safe to run passenger tires on an enclosed trailer, camper. A trailer needs tires with a stronger side wall and be able to inflate to 65 PSI. I also understand that the tires and wheels should be rated at 20% more than gvw. The wheels are also offset to where the inside clearance in the wheel well is only about 1 . …”

“Shasta model 2015 airflyte 16 re-issue inadequate load carrying capacity for dry weight. Vehicle suspension (leaf springs) not engineered to carry the load. This travel trailer was only pulled from the selling dealer in jacksonville, fl to my house approximately 350 miles away. Tire tread marks were noted on the upper inside of the wheel wells where there had been obvious contact during normal (unloaded / as delivered weight) transport on well maintained roads. Shasta (manufacturer) at first did not even acknowledge the problem so I replaced springs at my own expense. …”

“I am writing this as a owner of a 2015 Shasta airflite. Since taking delivery of the trailer in november of 2014 there has had continuous swaying while towing. I have found that Forest River has installed coker brand passenger tires 225r/15. There is less than one inch of clearance between the top of the tires and the wheel well. This is causing rubbing of tires to the wheel wells. The leaf springs are not adequate for the weight the trailer. These springs are showing signs of flattening. Also the tires weight rating is much less than the 3750# gvw. Thank you for looking into this matter.”