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Freightliner Sterling

Every Freightliner Sterling model year on file, 1997 to 2004. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years20 involved a crash, fire, injury or death
Model years71997 to 2004
Recall campaigns5Distinct campaigns listing it
Service bulletins2Summed across model years
By model year

The 1999 model year drew the most complaints, 1, 50% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

00.250.50.75119971998199912000200120022004
Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.
Components

Brakes leads the Freightliner Sterling complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Brakes
1
Engine and cooling
1
Steering
1
Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.
Model years

The record for each Freightliner Sterling model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

Freightliner Sterling by model year
YearBodyComplaintsSeverity indexPeer indexRecallsInvestigationsBulletins
2004Not decoded0NoneNone102
2002Not decoded10.0100010
2001Not decoded0NoneNone110
2000Not decoded0NoneNone410
1999Truck10.0100110
1998Not decoded0NoneNone110
1997Not decoded0NoneNone110
Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.
Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Freightliner Sterling

  • 05V-284 Jun 14, 2005
    Certain freightliner trucks and thomas school buses equipped with holland/neway air suspension systems, a transverse beam casting may fracture…
    Suspension · 634 vehicles
  • 03V-227 Jun 17, 2003
    On certain truck tractors equipped with jost international jsk 37u series fifth wheels, a fatigue crack can develop in the bracket pin weld under…
    Trailer hitches · 2,000 vehicles
  • 01V-189-001 Jun 14, 2001
    Vehicle description: vehicles equipped with certain haldex brake system two and four port relay valves
    Brakes · 4,400 vehicles
  • 01V-167-002 May 14, 2001
    Vehicle description: heavy duty trucks equipped with chalmers 1000 and 800 series suspension kits
    Suspension · 222 vehicles
  • 00V-232-002 Aug 7, 2000
    Vehicle description: heavy duty trucks and school bus chassis built with bendix air abs with an ec-17 1030r electronic control unit (ecu), there…
    Brakes · 35k vehicles
Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.