Recall Register

International Harvester S Series: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 14 recall campaigns for the International Harvester S Series, model years 1975 to 1987. NHTSA has no complaint on file for this model line. 13 of the 13 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. 19752
  2. 19762
  3. 19774
  4. 19785
  5. 19795
  6. 19803
  7. 19812
  8. 19823
  9. 19833
  10. 19842
  11. 19853
  12. 19864
  13. 19873
International Harvester S Series: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1987 International Harvester S Series30108,180
1986 International Harvester S Series40120,240
1985 International Harvester S Series30117,014
1984 International Harvester S Series20117,072
1983 International Harvester S Series30118,972
1982 International Harvester S Series30118,972
1981 International Harvester S Series20117,072
1980 International Harvester S Series30136,572
1979 International Harvester S Series50161,972
1978 International Harvester S Series50170,550
1977 International Harvester S Series4075,458
1976 International Harvester S Series2046,980
1975 International Harvester S Series2046,980

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 S Series, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the International Harvester S Series, 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 S Series: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/international-harvester/s-series/. 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 HARVESTER

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 S Series model years have the most recall campaigns?
1979 with 5, 1978 with 5, 1986 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which International Harvester S Series 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 S Series?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.