Recall · 21V689000
Daimler Trucks North America recalled the FREIGHTLINER Cascadia over steering
113,085
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
September 2, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
STEERING:LINKAGES:DRAG:LINK:CONNECTION
- The defect
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2019 Freightliner Classic Cascadia and 2019-2021 Freightliner Cascadia trucks. The drag link taper joint may not have been tightened sufficiently and could come loose, resulting in a complete separation of the drag link from the steering arm.
- What it can cause
- Drag link separation can cause a complete loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- DTNA will inspect the drag link taper joint and repair it as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on October 29, 2021. Owners may contact DTNA's customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-900.
- 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 113,085 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 2019 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 steering 49 times before this, most recently in May 2021 as 21V369000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 68 complaints with NHTSA, 20 of them before this campaign was filed. 10 of those name the steering, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in April 2018, 3 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 September 2, 2021 as campaign 21V689000. 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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