Recall · 20V567000
Daimler Trucks North America recalled the FREIGHTLINER Cascadia over exterior lighting
128,451
Vehicles covered
1
Model
5
Model years
February 16, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:BRAKE LIGHTS
- The defect
- Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2017-2021 Cascadia P4 vehicles. The brake lights may remain illuminated after the brake pedal has been released.
- What it can cause
- If the brake lights remain illuminated, drivers may be unaware when the truck is actually slowing or stopping, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will replace the 3-pin brake pressure switch with a 2-pin brake pressure switch along with a jumper harness, free of charge. DTNA issued owners an interim notification on November 17, 2020. Owner notification letters were mailed on November 21, 2021. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-863.
- 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 .
How this campaign compares
At 128,451 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 93% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2017 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Freightliner vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 24 times before this, most recently in July 2021 as 21V528000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 88 complaints with NHTSA, 37 of them before this campaign was filed. 7 of those name the exterior lighting, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2016, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 24 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V583000 (service brakes, air), 23V299000 (electronic stability control (esc)), 23V208000 (exterior lighting), 23V105000 (steering).
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 February 16, 2022 as campaign 20V567000. 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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