Recall Register

International Harvester 3900FC: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the International Harvester 3900FC, model years 1979 to 1995. NHTSA has no complaint on file for this model line. 3 of the 16 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. 19791
  2. 19801
  3. 19811
  4. 19821
  5. 19831
  6. 19841
  7. 19851
  8. 19861
  9. 19871
  10. 19881
  11. 19891
  12. 19915
  13. 19926
  14. 19932
  15. 19941
  16. 19951
International Harvester 3900FC: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1995 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page1062
1994 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page1062
1993 International Harvester 3900FC20255
1992 International Harvester 3900FC60197,130
1991 International Harvester 3900FC50197,068
1989 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page10185,000
1988 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page10185,000
1987 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page10185,000
1986 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page10185,000
1985 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page10185,000
1984 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page10185,000
1983 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page10185,000
1982 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page10185,000
1981 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page10185,000
1980 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page10185,000
1979 International Harvester 3900FC NHTSA page10185,000

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.

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the International Harvester 3900FC, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1992, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the International Harvester 3900FC, by the year NHTSA received them.

Other model lines of the make

International Harvester: all 114 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. International Harvester 3900FC: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/international-harvester/3900fc/. 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
Manufacturer in the recall file
NAVISTAR INTL CORP.

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 International Harvester 3900FC model years have the most recall campaigns?
1992 with 6, 1991 with 5, 1993 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which International Harvester 3900FC model year has the most complaints?
The NHTSA complaint file has no complaint for this model line.
How many NHTSA investigations name the International Harvester 3900FC?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.