Recall · 23V073000
Daimler Trucks North America recalled 4 models over electronic stability control (esc)
70,167
Vehicles covered
4
Models
15
Model years
February 10, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
- The defect
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2017-2023 Freightliner Cascadia, 2020-2023 Western Star 49X, 2021-2023 Western Star 47X, and 2022 Freightliner 114SD vehicles. The brake modulator valves on the front axle may corrode and cause the vehicle to pull to the affected side during braking initiated by Electronic Stability Control (ESC) or Roll Stability Control (RSC).
- What it can cause
- Brakes that pull to one side may cause a sudden change in vehicle direction, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the front brake modulator valves, as necessary. Some vehicles will have a software update which will alert driver when a replacement is required. All repairs will be performed free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed beginning October 13, 2023. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL966.
- 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 70,167 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 90% 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 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Freightliner vehicles have been recalled over the electronic stability control (esc) 2 times before this, most recently in February 2021 as 21V042000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 7 of the 15 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 113 complaints with NHTSA, 58 of them before this campaign was filed. 1 of those name the electronic stability control (esc), the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2016, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 48 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V583000 (service brakes, air), 26V079000 (electrical system), 25V760000 (suspension), 25V326000 (electrical system).
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 10, 2023 as campaign 23V073000. 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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