Freightliner Sprinter: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Freightliner Sprinter, model years 2002 to 2007. NHTSA has 15 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 4 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.
- 20020
- 20040
- 20050
- 20072
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 Freightliner Sprinter | 2 | 4 | 107% | 290 |
| 2005 Freightliner Sprinter NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 53% | |
| 2004 Freightliner Sprinter NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 27% | |
| 2002 Freightliner Sprinter NHTSA page | 0 | 8 | 213% |
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
16 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 250 | 4 |
| Air Bags | 250 | 4 |
| Power Train | 125 | 2 |
| Parking Brake | 62.5 | 1 |
| Tires | 62.5 | 1 |
| Electrical System | 62.5 | 1 |
| Suspension | 62.5 | 1 |
| Steering | 62.5 | 1 |
| Wheels | 62.5 | 1 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Freightliner74 campaigns
- Cascadia137 campaigns
- Columbia63 campaigns
- Conventional16 campaigns
- Century38 campaigns
- FL-7012 campaigns
- Business Class M2111 campaigns
- FS-6511 campaigns
- FLD1204 campaigns
- Sprinter 250071 campaigns
- MT5 campaigns
- M244 campaigns
- Classic9 campaigns
- Business Class18 campaigns
- Century Class7 campaigns
- Sprinter 350073 campaigns
- FLD47 campaigns
- XC13 campaigns
- FL-607 campaigns
- MT-458 campaigns
- FL606 campaigns
- MB-704 campaigns
- XC Motorhome Chassis3 campaigns
- Business Class M2 106V4 campaigns
- Cargo4 campaigns
- Coronado55 campaigns
- 114SD66 campaigns
- Century ST16 campaigns
- FLD1123 campaigns
- Sterling5 campaigns
- FL804 campaigns
- FLD-1203 campaigns
- Argosy26 campaigns
- FLN21 campaigns
- 122SD26 campaigns
- MT458 campaigns
- FLA7 campaigns
- FLC5 campaigns
- MT-553 campaigns
- FS-65 School Bus Chassis2 campaigns
- 108SD51 campaigns
- Sprinter 150039 campaigns
- Sprinter 450038 campaigns
- COE15 campaigns
- Classic XL13 campaigns
- MT5511 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
- Columbia Glider4 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 Sprinter: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/freightliner/sprinter/. 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
- CUES, INC.
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 model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2007 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Freightliner Sprinter model year has the most complaints?
- The 2002 model year, with 8 of the 15 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Freightliner Sprinter name?
- Engine and Engine Cooling: 4 component mentions. Air Bags: 4 component mentions. Power Train: 2 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Freightliner Sprinter?
- 1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.