Recall Register

Navistar 3800: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Navistar 3800, model years 1989 to 1999. NHTSA has 8 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 11 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. 19890
  2. 19900
  3. 19911
  4. 19921
  5. 19931
  6. 19941
  7. 19951
  8. 19962
  9. 19975
  10. 19986
  11. 19996
Navistar 3800: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1999 Navistar 3800600%24,464
1998 Navistar 380062275%80,545
1997 Navistar 380052275%67,927
1996 Navistar 380021138%42,924
1995 Navistar 3800 NHTSA page11138%2,833
1994 Navistar 3800 NHTSA page100%2,833
1993 Navistar 3800 NHTSA page100%2,833
1992 Navistar 3800 NHTSA page100%2,833
1991 Navistar 3800 NHTSA page100%2,833
1990 Navistar 3800 NHTSA page01138%
1989 Navistar 3800 NHTSA page01138%

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

12 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.

Navistar 3800: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Seats2503
Service Brakes, Hydraulic166.72
Parking Brake83.31
Exterior Lighting83.31
Fuel System, Other83.31
Structure83.31
Visibility83.31
Seat Belts83.31
Steering83.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Navistar 3800, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1999, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Navistar 3800, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Navistar: all 22 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Navistar 3800: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/navistar/3800/. 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
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
INTERNATIONAL TRUCK AND ENGINE

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 Navistar 3800 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1999 with 6, 1998 with 6, 1997 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Navistar 3800 model year has the most complaints?
The 1997 model year, with 2 of the 8 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Navistar 3800 name?
Seats: 3 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 2 component mentions. Parking Brake: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Navistar 3800?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.