Recall · 21V357000
Daimler Trucks North America recalled the FREIGHTLINER Cascadia over exterior lighting
72,510
Vehicles covered
1
Model
6
Model years
May 14, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS:BULBS
- The defect
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2017-2022 Freightliner Cascadia vehicles equipped with halogen headlight assemblies. The halogen headlight bulb may dislodge during replacement and contact other vehicle components, possibly causing them to melt.
- What it can cause
- Melting components can increase the risk of fire.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will install a foam grommet, cut a 4-inch access hole into the inner fender, and add a warning label on both fenders, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on July 9, 2021. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-887.
- 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.nhtsa.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 72,510 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 91% 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 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Freightliner vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 21 times before this, most recently in January 2021 as 21V002000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 101 complaints with NHTSA, 30 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, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 32 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 May 14, 2021 as campaign 21V357000. 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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