Recall Register

Kenworth T300: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 30 recall campaigns for the Kenworth T300, model years 1996 to 2010. NHTSA has 6 complaints on file for this model line. 11 of the 15 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. 19961
  2. 19971
  3. 19982
  4. 19996
  5. 20006
  6. 20015
  7. 20024
  8. 20035
  9. 20044
  10. 20052
  11. 20064
  12. 20075
  13. 20087
  14. 20091
  15. 20101
Kenworth T300: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2010 Kenworth T300 NHTSA page100%135
2009 Kenworth T300 NHTSA page100%135
2008 Kenworth T300700%15,605
2007 Kenworth T30053750%6,543
2006 Kenworth T300400%5,334
2005 Kenworth T300200%4,925
2004 Kenworth T30041250%11,606
2003 Kenworth T300500%17,683
2002 Kenworth T300400%13,547
2001 Kenworth T30052500%8,478
2000 Kenworth T300600%10,710
1999 Kenworth T300600%22,066
1998 Kenworth T300200%3,024
1997 Kenworth T300 NHTSA page100%3,000
1996 Kenworth T300 NHTSA page100%3,000

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

6 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 T300: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Suspension333.32
Steering333.32
Electrical System166.71
Visibility166.71

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Kenworth T300, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2001, with 6 campaigns.
Complaints about the Kenworth T300, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Kenworth: all 39 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Kenworth T300: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/kenworth/t300/. 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
29 Mar 2018
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 T300 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2008 with 7, 2000 with 6, 1999 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Kenworth T300 model year has the most complaints?
The 2007 model year, with 3 of the 6 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Kenworth T300 name?
Suspension: 2 component mentions. Steering: 2 component mentions. Electrical System: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Kenworth T300?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.