Recall Register

Mack CL: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 23 recall campaigns for the Mack CL, model years 1987 to 2008. NHTSA has 4 complaints on file for this model line. 15 of the 21 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. 19871
  2. 19882
  3. 19892
  4. 19902
  5. 19912
  6. 19922
  7. 19931
  8. 19950
  9. 19961
  10. 19971
  11. 19982
  12. 19996
  13. 20004
  14. 20014
  15. 20023
  16. 20032
  17. 20042
  18. 20052
  19. 20062
  20. 20073
  21. 20081
Mack CL: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2008 Mack CL NHTSA page11525%950
2007 Mack CL300%8,483
2006 Mack CL200%962
2005 Mack CL200%10,400
2004 Mack CL200%25,790
2003 Mack CL200%16,722
2002 Mack CL300%15,739
2001 Mack CL400%16,017
2000 Mack CL400%56,397
1999 Mack CL61525%60,104
1998 Mack CL21525%8,238
1997 Mack CL NHTSA page100%10,438
1996 Mack CL NHTSA page100%1,590
1995 Mack CL NHTSA page01525%
1993 Mack CL NHTSA page100%4,924
1992 Mack CL200%44,701
1991 Mack CL200%43,777
1990 Mack CL200%43,777
1989 Mack CL200%43,777
1988 Mack CL200%43,777
1987 Mack CL NHTSA page100%39,777

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.

Mack CL: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Wheels333.32
Service Brakes, Air166.71
Equipment166.71
Structure166.71
Unknown or Other166.71

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mack CL, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2001, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mack CL, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Mack: all 90 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mack CL: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mack/cl/. 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
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
MACK TRUCKS, 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 Mack CL model years have the most recall campaigns?
1999 with 6, 2001 with 4, 2000 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mack CL model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 1 of the 4 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mack CL name?
Wheels: 2 component mentions. Service Brakes, Air: 1 component mention. Equipment: 1 component mention.