Recall Register

Kenworth K100: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the Kenworth K100, model years 1975 to 2004. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 5 of the 17 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. 19751
  2. 19761
  3. 19771
  4. 19781
  5. 19791
  6. 19801
  7. 19811
  8. 19841
  9. 19851
  10. 19861
  11. 19963
  12. 19972
  13. 19982
  14. 19995
  15. 20004
  16. 20011
  17. 20041
Kenworth K100: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2004 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page111700%4,322
2001 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page100%209
2000 Kenworth K100400%7,406
1999 Kenworth K100500%16,668
1998 Kenworth K100200%9,709
1997 Kenworth K100200%9,709
1996 Kenworth K100300%10,326
1986 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page100%5,000
1985 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page100%5,000
1984 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page100%44
1981 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page100%9,000
1980 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page100%9,000
1979 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page100%9,000
1978 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page100%9,000
1977 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page100%9,000
1976 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page100%9,000
1975 Kenworth K100 NHTSA page100%9,000

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.

Components in the complaints

1 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.

Kenworth K100: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Unknown or Other1,0001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Kenworth K100, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2001, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Kenworth K100, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Kenworth: all 39 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Kenworth K100: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/kenworth/k100/. 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
PACCAR, INCORPORATED

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 Kenworth K100 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1999 with 5, 2000 with 4, 1996 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Kenworth K100 model year has the most complaints?
The 2004 model year, with 1 of the 1 complaint for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Kenworth K100 name?
Unknown or Other: 1 component mention.