Recall Register

Freightliner FL80: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Freightliner FL80, model years 1991 to 2000. NHTSA has 2 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 5 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. 19914
  2. 19922
  3. 19931
  4. 19941
  5. 20000
Freightliner FL80: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2000 Freightliner FL80 NHTSA page02500%
1994 Freightliner FL80 NHTSA page100%77,000
1993 Freightliner FL80 NHTSA page100%77,000
1992 Freightliner FL80200%77,985
1991 Freightliner FL80400%78,454

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

4 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 FL80: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure2501
Service Brakes, Hydraulic2501
Engine and Engine Cooling2501
Fuel System, Gasoline2501

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Freightliner FL80, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1991, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Freightliner FL80, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2002, with 2 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Freightliner: all 77 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Freightliner FL80: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/freightliner/fl80/. 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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
FREIGHTLINER CORPORATION

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 FL80 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1991 with 4, 1992 with 2, 1994 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Freightliner FL80 model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 2 of the 2 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Freightliner FL80 name?
Structure: 1 component mention. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 1 component mention. Engine and Engine Cooling: 1 component mention.