Recall Register

Freightliner Century Class: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 7 recall campaigns for the Freightliner Century Class, model years 1999 to 2017. NHTSA has 11 complaints on file for this model line. 9 of the 18 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19990
  2. 20000
  3. 20021
  4. 20031
  5. 20042
  6. 20054
  7. 20065
  8. 20074
  9. 20085
  10. 20094
  11. 20104
  12. 20113
  13. 20122
  14. 20131
  15. 20141
  16. 20151
  17. 20161
  18. 20171
Freightliner Century Class: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2017 Freightliner Century Class NHTSA page100%24,860
2016 Freightliner Century Class NHTSA page100%24,860
2015 Freightliner Century Class NHTSA page100%24,860
2014 Freightliner Century Class NHTSA page100%24,860
2013 Freightliner Century Class NHTSA page100%24,860
2012 Freightliner Century Class200%73,030
2011 Freightliner Century Class300%136,205
2010 Freightliner Century Class400%161,567
2009 Freightliner Century Class400%161,567
2008 Freightliner Century Class500%162,040
2007 Freightliner Century Class400%175,397
2006 Freightliner Century Class52327%236,397
2005 Freightliner Century Class45818%173,222
2004 Freightliner Century Class21164%50,222
2003 Freightliner Century Class NHTSA page11164%24,860
2002 Freightliner Century Class NHTSA page100%24,860
2000 Freightliner Century Class NHTSA page01164%
1999 Freightliner Century Class NHTSA page01164%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

12 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Freightliner Century Class: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling416.75
Air Bags83.31
Equipment83.31
Tires83.31
Service Brakes, Air83.31
Electrical System83.31
Steering83.31
Power Train83.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Freightliner Century Class, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2008, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Freightliner Century Class, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2006, with 5 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Freightliner: all 77 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Freightliner Century Class: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/freightliner/century-class/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
Daimler Trucks North America LLC

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Freightliner Century Class model years have the most recall campaigns?
2008 with 5, 2006 with 5, 2010 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Freightliner Century Class model year has the most complaints?
The 2005 model year, with 5 of the 11 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Freightliner Century Class name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 5 component mentions. Air Bags: 1 component mention. Equipment: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Freightliner Century Class?
6 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.