Recall · 22V779000
PACCAR Incorporated recalled 8 models over electrical system
74,730
Vehicles covered
8
Models
16
Model years
October 17, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INSTRUMENT CLUSTER/PANEL
- The defect
- PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2022-2023 Kenworth T680, T880, W990, and Peterbilt 365, 367, 389, 567, and 579 vehicles. The digital display may freeze and not display critical safety information. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard numbers 101, "Control and Displays" and 102, "Trans Shift Lever Seq/Starter Interlock/Trans Braking Effect."
- What it can cause
- The loss of display information, such as vehicle speed and warning lights, can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the software, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed December 16, 2022. Owners may contact Kenworth's customer service at 1-425-828-5888 and Peterbilt's customer service at 1-940-591-4220. PACCAR's numbers for this recall are 22KWK and 22PBK.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| KenworthT680 | 2022 to 2023 | 2023 |
| KenworthT880 | 2022 to 2023 | Not published here |
| KenworthW990 | 2022 to 2023 | Not published here |
| Peterbilt365 | 2022 to 2023 | Not published here |
| Peterbilt367 | 2022 to 2023 | Not published here |
| Peterbilt389 | 2022 to 2023 | Not published here |
| Peterbilt567 | 2022 to 2023 | Not published here |
| Peterbilt579 | 2022 to 2023 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 74,730 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 2022 to 2023, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2022, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Kenworth vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 20 times before this, most recently in February 2018 as 18V092000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 16 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 15 complaints with NHTSA, 1 of them before this campaign was filed. 1 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 20 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V181000 (electrical system), 24V915000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 24V190000 (power train), 24V145000 (service brakes, air).
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 PACCAR Incorporated with NHTSA on October 17, 2022 as campaign 22V779000. 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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