KME Predator: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 22 recall campaigns for the KME Predator, model years 2006 to 2025. NHTSA has 13 complaints on file for this model line. 13 of the 18 model years have a page on this register. By recall campaigns, the KME Predator is number 1 of 24 model lines of KME on the register. Recall campaigns for the KME Predator: none in 2024 and 1 in 2025. For all KME vehicles, the count fell by 75.0%, from 4 in 2024 to 1 in 2025.
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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 KME Predator NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1,261 |
| 2024 KME Predator NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1,261 |
| 2021 KME Predator | 3 | 0 | 0% | 140 |
| 2020 KME Predator | 3 | 0 | 0% | 785 |
| 2019 KME Predator NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 678 |
| 2018 KME Predator | 2 | 0 | 0% | 785 |
| 2017 KME Predator | 4 | 0 | 0% | 886 |
| 2016 KME Predator | 5 | 0 | 0% | 919 |
| 2015 KME Predator | 2 | 0 | 0% | 26 |
| 2014 KME Predator | 4 | 2 | 277% | 139 |
| 2013 KME Predator | 6 | 5 | 692% | 874 |
| 2012 KME Predator | 3 | 2 | 277% | 749 |
| 2011 KME Predator | 4 | 1 | 138% | 885 |
| 2010 KME Predator | 3 | 3 | 415% | 778 |
| 2009 KME Predator | 2 | 0 | 0% | 759 |
| 2008 KME Predator NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 64 |
| 2007 KME Predator | 2 | 0 | 0% | 186 |
| 2006 KME Predator NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 122 |
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
13 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Structure | 1,000 | 13 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Predator Aerial14 campaigns
- Panther11 campaigns
- Commercial Rescue4 campaigns
- Predator SS Pumper11 campaigns
- Predator SS Aerial16 campaigns
- Predator Pumper11 campaigns
- Predator SS11 campaigns
- Predator Panther Pumper8 campaigns
- Commercial Pumper4 campaigns
- Predator Panther Aerial7 campaigns
- Predator Rescue8 campaigns
- Predator Panther7 campaigns
- Predator SS TDA5 campaigns
- Redundant Panther7 campaigns
- Commercial Wildland3 campaigns
- Predator SS Rescue4 campaigns
- Commercial Tanker3 campaigns
- Severe Service6 campaigns
- Predator TDA7 campaigns
- Redundant Predator6 campaigns
- Predator Panther Tanker4 campaigns
- Predator Tanker4 campaigns
- Panther II2 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. KME Predator: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/kme/predator/. 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
- 3 Nov 2026
- Complaint file through
- 5 Nov 2026
- Manufacturer in the recall file
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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 KME Predator model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2013 with 6, 2016 with 5, 2017 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which KME Predator model year has the most complaints?
- The 2013 model year, with 5 of the 13 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the KME Predator name?
- Structure: 13 component mentions.