Recall · 20V527000
Daimler Trucks North America recalled 3 models over engine and engine cooling
9,665
Vehicles covered
3
Models
12
Model years
September 1, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
- The defect
- Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2018-2021 Freightliner 114SD, 108SD, and Business Class M2 vehicles. The engine harness wires may chafe at various locations around the air compressor and the frame rail. The damaged wires may short causing the engine to stall without any prior warning.
- What it can cause
- An engine stall can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will inspect for adequate harness clearance and verify that the harness has not been damaged. Vehicles with a damaged harness will receive a new harness that consists of a severe duty wrapping and additional hardware. All repairs will be performed free of charge. The recall began October 28, 2020. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-860.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| Freightliner108SD | 2018 to 2021 | Not published here |
| Freightliner114SD | 2018 to 2021 | Not published here |
| FreightlinerBusiness Class M2 | 2018 to 2021 | 2020 |
How this campaign compares
At 9,665 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 79% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Freightliner vehicles have been recalled over the engine and engine cooling 35 times before this, most recently in February 2020 as 20V079000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 1 of the 12 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 8 complaints with NHTSA.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 27 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V760000 (suspension), 24V924000 (engine and engine cooling), 23V299000 (electronic stability control (esc)), 23V237000 (visibility).
Check your own car
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.
Filed by Daimler Trucks North America LLC with NHTSA on September 1, 2020 as campaign 20V527000. 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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