Recall Register

Freightliner Sprinter 2500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 71 recall campaigns for the Freightliner Sprinter 2500, model years 2001 to 2022. NHTSA has 3 complaints on file for this model line. 21 of the 22 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. 20012
  2. 20024
  3. 20035
  4. 20043
  5. 20053
  6. 20063
  7. 20075
  8. 20085
  9. 20094
  10. 20105
  11. 20114
  12. 20122
  13. 20134
  14. 20144
  15. 20158
  16. 20169
  17. 20175
  18. 20187
  19. 201936
  20. 202017
  21. 202112
  22. 20221
Freightliner Sprinter 2500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2022 Freightliner Sprinter 2500 NHTSA page100%124,305
2021 Freightliner Sprinter 25001200%227,069
2020 Freightliner Sprinter 25001700%376,467
2019 Freightliner Sprinter 25003600%519,113
2018 Freightliner Sprinter 2500700%56,301
2017 Freightliner Sprinter 2500500%208,282
2016 Freightliner Sprinter 2500900%226,193
2015 Freightliner Sprinter 2500800%225,042
2014 Freightliner Sprinter 2500400%240,090
2013 Freightliner Sprinter 2500400%169,115
2012 Freightliner Sprinter 2500200%153,970
2011 Freightliner Sprinter 2500400%160,737
2010 Freightliner Sprinter 2500500%163,326
2009 Freightliner Sprinter 2500400%186,076
2008 Freightliner Sprinter 2500500%184,460
2007 Freightliner Sprinter 2500500%187,339
2006 Freightliner Sprinter 250031733%21,944
2005 Freightliner Sprinter 250031733%21,944
2004 Freightliner Sprinter 2500300%21,944
2003 Freightliner Sprinter 250051733%37,032
2002 Freightliner Sprinter 2500400%19,531
2001 Freightliner Sprinter 2500200%4,443

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

3 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 Sprinter 2500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Fuel System, Diesel333.31
Power Train333.31
Engine and Engine Cooling333.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Freightliner Sprinter 2500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 13 campaigns.
Complaints about the Freightliner Sprinter 2500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Freightliner: all 77 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Freightliner Sprinter 2500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/freightliner/sprinter-2500/. 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
SPRINTER ENGINEERING & COMPLIANCE SUPPOR

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 Sprinter 2500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2019 with 36, 2020 with 17, 2021 with 12. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Freightliner Sprinter 2500 model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 1 of the 3 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Freightliner Sprinter 2500 name?
Fuel System, Diesel: 1 component mention. Power Train: 1 component mention. Engine and Engine Cooling: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Freightliner Sprinter 2500?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.