Recall Register

Mack R Series: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 18 recall campaigns for the Mack R Series, model years 1968 to 1989. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 12 of the 20 model years have a page on this register.

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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. 19681
  2. 19691
  3. 19701
  4. 19711
  5. 19721
  6. 19731
  7. 19741
  8. 19751
  9. 19762
  10. 19772
  11. 19783
  12. 19795
  13. 19806
  14. 19814
  15. 19822
  16. 19832
  17. 19842
  18. 19873
  19. 19886
  20. 19892
Mack R Series: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1989 Mack R Series200%16,100
1988 Mack R Series600%31,236
1987 Mack R Series300%8,244
1984 Mack R Series212000%31,153
1983 Mack R Series200%31,153
1982 Mack R Series200%30,181
1981 Mack R Series400%30,615
1980 Mack R Series600%24,929
1979 Mack R Series500%23,405
1978 Mack R Series300%3,739
1977 Mack R Series200%318
1976 Mack R Series200%328
1975 Mack R Series NHTSA page100%219
1974 Mack R Series NHTSA page100%219
1973 Mack R Series NHTSA page100%219
1972 Mack R Series NHTSA page100%219
1971 Mack R Series NHTSA page100%219
1970 Mack R Series NHTSA page100%219
1969 Mack R Series NHTSA page100%219
1968 Mack R Series NHTSA page100%219

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.

Mack R Series: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train1,0001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mack R Series, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Mack R Series, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Mack: all 90 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mack R Series: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mack/r-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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
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 R Series model years have the most recall campaigns?
1988 with 6, 1980 with 6, 1979 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mack R Series model year has the most complaints?
The 1984 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 Mack R Series name?
Power Train: 1 component mention.