Recall Register

Orion V: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 24 recall campaigns for the Orion V, model years 1990 to 2008. NHTSA has 2 complaints on file for this model line. 17 of the 19 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. 19901
  2. 19911
  3. 19922
  4. 19932
  5. 19943
  6. 19956
  7. 19969
  8. 19978
  9. 199811
  10. 19997
  11. 20006
  12. 20015
  13. 20026
  14. 20037
  15. 20047
  16. 20055
  17. 20064
  18. 20075
  19. 20085
Orion V: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2008 Orion V500%4,780
2007 Orion V500%4,722
2006 Orion V400%4,605
2005 Orion V500%4,973
2004 Orion V700%7,172
2003 Orion V700%7,403
2002 Orion V61950%4,394
2001 Orion V500%10,345
2000 Orion V61950%8,603
1999 Orion V700%24,442
1998 Orion V1100%14,208
1997 Orion V800%12,587
1996 Orion V900%12,462
1995 Orion V600%11,945
1994 Orion V300%6,108
1993 Orion V200%4,063
1992 Orion V200%4,063
1991 Orion V NHTSA page100%3,637
1990 Orion V NHTSA page100%3,637

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

3 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.

Orion V: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Air333.31
Electrical System333.31
Engine and Engine Cooling333.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Orion V, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1998, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Orion V, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Orion: all 6 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Orion V: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/orion/v/. 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
DAIMLERCHRYSLER COMMERCIAL BUSES NA

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 Orion V model years have the most recall campaigns?
1998 with 11, 1996 with 9, 1997 with 8. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Orion V model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 1 of the 2 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Orion V name?
Service Brakes, Air: 1 component mention. Electrical System: 1 component mention. Engine and Engine Cooling: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Orion V?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.