Freightliner FLA: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 7 recall campaigns for the Freightliner FLA, model years 1986 to 1994. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 6 of the 9 model years have a page on this register. By recall campaigns, the Freightliner FLA is number 31 of 77 model lines of Freightliner on the register. Recall campaigns for the Freightliner FLA: none in 2024 and none in 2025. For all Freightliner vehicles, the count fell by 20.0%, from 10 in 2024 to 8 in 2025.
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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 Freightliner FLA | 2 | 0 | 0% | 104,500 |
| 1993 Freightliner FLA | 4 | 0 | 0% | 116,005 |
| 1992 Freightliner FLA | 2 | 0 | 0% | 77,505 |
| 1991 Freightliner FLA | 4 | 1 | 900% | 95,141 |
| 1990 Freightliner FLA NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 2,976 |
| 1989 Freightliner FLA | 2 | 0 | 0% | 5,312 |
| 1988 Freightliner FLA | 2 | 0 | 0% | 5,312 |
| 1987 Freightliner FLA NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 2,336 |
| 1986 Freightliner FLA NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 2,336 |
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
1 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Service Brakes, Air | 1,000 | 1 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Cascadia137 campaigns
- Freightliner74 campaigns
- Columbia63 campaigns
- Conventional16 campaigns
- Business Class M2113 campaigns
- Century38 campaigns
- Sprinter 250071 campaigns
- FL-7012 campaigns
- FS-6511 campaigns
- M244 campaigns
- FLD1204 campaigns
- MT5 campaigns
- Sprinter 350073 campaigns
- Sprinter2 campaigns
- Century Class7 campaigns
- Classic9 campaigns
- Business Class18 campaigns
- M2 Business Class4 campaigns
- FLD47 campaigns
- XC13 campaigns
- FL-607 campaigns
- 114SD66 campaigns
- MT-458 campaigns
- FL606 campaigns
- Coronado55 campaigns
- MB-704 campaigns
- XC Motorhome Chassis3 campaigns
- 122SD26 campaigns
- MT5511 campaigns
- Business Class M2 106V4 campaigns
- Cargo4 campaigns
- 108SD52 campaigns
- Century ST16 campaigns
- FLD1123 campaigns
- Sterling5 campaigns
- FL804 campaigns
- FLD-1203 campaigns
- Sprinter 150039 campaigns
- Sprinter 450038 campaigns
- Argosy26 campaigns
- FLN21 campaigns
- MT458 campaigns
- FLC5 campaigns
- MT-553 campaigns
- FS-65 School Bus Chassis2 campaigns
- COE15 campaigns
- Classic XL13 campaigns
- XB5 campaigns
- FLB9 campaigns
- MB-553 campaigns
- MB-604 campaigns
- FLD120SD4 campaigns
- VCL5 campaigns
- American Lafrance7 campaigns
- E-Cascadia4 campaigns
- MB-452 campaigns
- EM24 campaigns
- MC4 campaigns
- FL80 Business Class2 campaigns
- Sprinter (VS30)6 campaigns
Freightliner: all 77 model lines
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Freightliner FLA: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/freightliner/fla/. 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
- 3 Nov 2026
- Complaint file through
- 5 Nov 2026
- 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 FLA model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1993 with 4, 1991 with 4, 1994 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Freightliner FLA model year has the most complaints?
- The 1991 model year, with 1 of the 1 complaint for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Freightliner FLA name?
- Service Brakes, Air: 1 component mention.