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2018 Freightliner M2 Business Class: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the 2018 Freightliner M2 Business Class. The newest campaign is 19V370000. NHTSA received the report on 14 May 2019. The NHTSA record gives the component Service Brakes, Air / Supply / Reservoir/Tank. NHTSA has 5 complaints on file for this model year.

The NHTSA recall file shows no do-not-drive advisory and no park-outside advisory on these campaigns.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

Remedy of the newest campaign, 19V370000, in the NHTSA record

DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will add air reservoir capacity to the affected vehicles. Owner letters were mailed on November 29, 2021. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-815.
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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.

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Recall campaigns

2 campaigns, newest first. 3,224 units in total.

  1. 19V370000Received . 741 units.

    Service Brakes, Air / Supply / Reservoir/Tank

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2004-2019 Freightliner 108SD, 114SD, 122SD, Cascadia, Columbia, Classic, FL80, FLD 120SD, Business Class M2, Western Star 4700, 4900, 6900, Sterling Acterra, L7500, LT7500, L8500, LT8500, L9500, and LT9500 vehicles. The vehicles may have an insufficient service brake air reservoir capacity. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 121, "Air Brake Systems."
    Consequence, in the NHTSA record
    An insufficient air reservoir volume may reduce brake effectiveness, increasing the risk of crash.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will add air reservoir capacity to the affected vehicles. Owner letters were mailed on November 29, 2021. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-815.

    Report filed by Daimler Trucks North America LLC. Manufacturer campaign number FL-815. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

  2. 17V452000Received . 2,483 units.

    Equipment

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is recalling certain 2018 Freightliner Cascadia, M2 Business Class, 114SD, and 122SD trucks, and Western Star 4700 and 5700 trucks. These vehicles have tow hooks used for recovery purposes that may fail during use.
    Consequence, in the NHTSA record
    If the tow hook fails without warning during a recovery operation, the sudden release of the vehicle may increase the risk of injury.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the vehicle's tow hooks and, depending on their production date codes, will replace them, free of charge. The recall began on September 14, 2017. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-745-8000. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-742.

    Report filed by Daimler Trucks North America LLC. Manufacturer campaign number FL-742. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

The campaign number opens the NHTSA record. Each quotation is the text of the NHTSA recall file.

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

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

Complaints by component

5 complaints, 5 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

2018 Freightliner M2 Business Class: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Unknown or Other5
Complaints that report a crash
0
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
0
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
3 May 2024

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 2018 Freightliner M2 Business Class, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2024, with 5 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

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

  1. 20182
  2. 20193

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2018 Freightliner M2 Business Class: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/freightliner/m2-business-class/2018/. 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
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
Daimler Trucks North America LLC

The NHTSA record is the authority. A complaint count is the number of different complaint numbers for the make, the model and the model year. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

How many units are in the recall campaigns for the 2018 Freightliner M2 Business Class?
3,224 units in 2 campaigns. A campaign can name other models and model years, and its units include them.
How many recall campaigns does the Freightliner M2 Business Class have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Freightliner M2 Business Class, model years 2018 to 2019. 2 of them name the 2018 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2018 Freightliner M2 Business Class name most often?
Unknown or Other: 5 of 5 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2018 Freightliner M2 Business Class open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.