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Recall · 20V127000

Daimler Trucks North America recalled 14 models over service brakes, air

2,585

Vehicles covered

14

Models

28

Model years

March 3, 2020

Filed with NHTSA

SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DISC:CALIPER

The defect
Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Freightliner 108SD, 114SD, Cascadia, Business Class M2, Western Star 4700 and 5700, Freightliner Custom Chassis S2, Custom Chassis XB, and Custom Chassis XC vehicles equipped with air disc brakes. The brake caliper mounting bolts may have been insufficiently tightened.
What it can cause
Loose brake caliper mounting bolts can reduce brake effectiveness, increasing the risk of a crash.
What the dealer does
DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and repair the vehicles, free of charge. The recall began May 1, 2020. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-845.
NHTSA's note
Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.

The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.

Which vehicles

A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup.

VehicleModel yearsSafety record
FCCC S22019 to 2020Not published here
FCCC XBP2019 to 2020Not published here
FCCC XBR2019 to 2020Not published here
FCCC XBS2019 to 2020Not published here
FCCC XCL2019 to 2020Not published here
FCCC XCM2019 to 2020Not published here
FCCC XCR2019 to 2020Not published here
FCCC XCS2019 to 2020Not published here
Freightliner 108SD2019 to 2020Not published here
Freightliner 114SD2019 to 2020Not published here
Freightliner Business Class M22019 to 20202020
Freightliner Cascadia2019 to 202020192020
Western Star 47002019 to 2020Not published here
Western Star 57002019 to 2020Not published here

How this campaign compares

At 2,585 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 68% of the 13,932 vehicle recalls with a published size filed from 1995 up to this one. The middle campaign among them covers 495. It covers model years 2019 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.

Freightliner vehicles have been recalled over the service brakes, air 45 times before this, most recently in November 2019 as 19V803000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.

This site holds the complaint record for 3 of the 28 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 64 complaints with NHTSA, 10 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 of those name the service brakes, air, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in April 2018, 1 year before this filing.

The vehicles on this campaign carry 39 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V583000 (service brakes, air), 25V760000 (suspension), 24V924000 (engine and engine cooling), 23V299000 (electronic stability control (esc)).

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A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.

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Filed by Daimler Trucks North America LLC with NHTSA on March 3, 2020 as campaign 20V127000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.

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