Recall · 23V208000
Daimler Trucks North America recalled 2 models over exterior lighting
24,282
Vehicles covered
2
Models
4
Model years
March 28, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS
- The defect
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Freightliner Cascadia and Western Star 49X vehicles. The hazard warning lights may flash improperly during an Advanced Braking Assist event. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
- What it can cause
- Hazard warning lights that flash improperly may cause confusion for other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the software controlling the hazard warning lights, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 18, 2023. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL851.
- 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 24,282 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 85% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Freightliner vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 25 times before this, most recently in February 2022 as 20V567000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 40 complaints with NHTSA, 24 of them before this campaign was filed. 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), 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 March 28, 2023 as campaign 23V208000. 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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