Recall · 22V940000
PACCAR Incorporated recalled the PETERBILT 579 over visibility
2,565
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
December 16, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:REARVIEW MIRRORS/DEVICES:EXTERIOR
- The defect
- PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2022-2023 Peterbilt 579 vehicles. The molded hood mirror assemblies may break at the pivot joint and, if unsecured by a harness or tether, can fall into the roadway.
- What it can cause
- A molded hood mirror that falls into the roadway can become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect for a wire harness or tether and replace the hood mirror assembly as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed February 14, 2023. Owners may contact Peterbilt's customer service at 1-940-591-4220. PACCAR's number for this recall is 22PBF.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peterbilt579 | 2022 to 2023 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 2,565 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 68% 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.
Peterbilt vehicles have been recalled over the visibility 2 times before this, most recently in October 2019 as 19V733000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 1 of the 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 6 complaints with NHTSA, 1 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 15 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V181000 (electrical system), 24V915000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 24V190000 (power train), 23V653000 (fuel system, diesel).
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 December 16, 2022 as campaign 22V940000. 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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