Recall Register

International Harvester 4900: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the International Harvester 4900, model years 1991 to 2001. NHTSA has 21 complaints on file for this model line. 8 of the 10 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. 19912
  2. 19922
  3. 19932
  4. 19941
  5. 19951
  6. 19972
  7. 19982
  8. 19993
  9. 20003
  10. 20013
International Harvester 4900: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2001 International Harvester 4900300%193,261
2000 International Harvester 4900314667%193,261
1999 International Harvester 490034190%193,261
1998 International Harvester 4900200%111,378
1997 International Harvester 4900200%1,366
1995 International Harvester 4900 NHTSA page1148%373
1994 International Harvester 4900 NHTSA page100%373
1993 International Harvester 49002148%1,269
1992 International Harvester 4900200%1,269
1991 International Harvester 49002148%1,269

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

27 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.

International Harvester 4900: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Air703.719
Unknown or Other74.12
Power Train74.12
Parking Brake74.12
Engine and Engine Cooling371
Service Brakes, Hydraulic371

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the International Harvester 4900, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1993, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the International Harvester 4900, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2001, with 14 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

International Harvester: all 114 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. International Harvester 4900: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/international-harvester/4900/. 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
INTERNATIONAL TRUCK AND ENGINE

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 4900 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2001 with 3, 2000 with 3, 1999 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which International Harvester 4900 model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 14 of the 21 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the International Harvester 4900 name?
Service Brakes, Air: 19 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 2 component mentions. Power Train: 2 component mentions.