Recall · 23V105000
Daimler Trucks North America recalled 7 models over steering
60,604
Vehicles covered
7
Models
19
Model years
February 20, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
STEERING:LINKAGES:DRAG:LINK:CONNECTION
- The defect
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2019-2021 Freightliner 108SD, 114SD, 122SD, Columbia, Coronado, Business Class M2, and 2020 Freightliner Cascadia vehicles. 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 April 21, 2023. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL967. This recall expands recall number 21V-689.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Freightliner108SD | 2019 to 2021 | Not published here |
| Freightliner114SD | 2019 to 2021 | Not published here |
| Freightliner122SD | 2019 to 2021 | Not published here |
| FreightlinerCascadia | 2020 | 2020 |
| FreightlinerColumbia | 2019 to 2021 | Not published here |
| FreightlinerCoronado | 2019 to 2021 | Not published here |
| FreightlinerM2 | 2019 to 2021 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 60,604 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 2019 to 2021, 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 steering 53 times before this, most recently in September 2022 as 22V722000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 19 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 33 complaints with NHTSA, 16 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 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 2019, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 31 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V583000 (service brakes, air), 25V760000 (suspension), 23V299000 (electronic stability control (esc)), 23V237000 (visibility).
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 20, 2023 as campaign 23V105000. 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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