Peterbilt 389: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 48 recall campaigns for the Peterbilt 389, model years 2004 to 2025. NHTSA has 12 complaints on file for this model line. 20 of the 22 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 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 15 May 2019. Recall file through 29 Sep 2026.

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

Peterbilt 389: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2025 Peterbilt 389	2	0	0%	266,651
2024 Peterbilt 389	5	0	0%	337,296
2023 Peterbilt 389	6	0	0%	415,183
2022 Peterbilt 389	7	0	0%	414,706
2021 Peterbilt 389	6	0	0%	293,573
2020 Peterbilt 389	5	0	0%	55,465
2019 Peterbilt 389	6	1	183%	589,187
2018 Peterbilt 389	6	0	0%	590,016
2017 Peterbilt 389	7	1	183%	552,294
2016 Peterbilt 389	8	0	0%	731,165
2015 Peterbilt 389	10	7	1283%	719,912
2014 Peterbilt 389	7	1	183%	692,855
2013 Peterbilt 389	8	0	0%	697,635
2012 Peterbilt 389	9	1	183%	702,299
2011 Peterbilt 389	7	0	0%	686,079
2010 Peterbilt 389	7	0	0%	694,282
2009 Peterbilt 389	12	0	0%	708,791
2008 Peterbilt 389	12	1	183%	716,737
2007 Peterbilt 389	5	0	0%	231,646
2006 Peterbilt 389	2	0	0%	213,791
2005 Peterbilt 389 NHTSA page	1	0	0%	561
2004 Peterbilt 389 NHTSA page	1	0	0%	561

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

18 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.

Peterbilt 389: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Wheels	222.2	4
Tires	166.7	3
Electrical System	111.1	2
Structure	111.1	2
Engine	55.6	1
Exterior Lighting	55.6	1
Fuel/Propulsion System	55.6	1
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)	55.6	1
Unknown or Other	55.6	1
Visibility/Wiper	55.6	1

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Peterbilt 389, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2015, with 7 campaigns.

Complaints about the Peterbilt 389, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2014, with 6 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

37933 campaigns
Peterbilt46 campaigns
38830 campaigns
35728 campaigns
57959 campaigns
38734 campaigns
38630 campaigns
Conventional6 campaigns
3778 campaigns
32036 campaigns
58723 campaigns
33511 campaigns
37825 campaigns
33722 campaigns
33034 campaigns
56757 campaigns
52024 campaigns
Model 2205 campaigns
Conventional Series3 campaigns
36546 campaigns
36754 campaigns
38525 campaigns
34826 campaigns
38423 campaigns
54822 campaigns
53621 campaigns
53719 campaigns
38210 campaigns
22014 campaigns
2106 campaigns
3108 campaigns
34010 campaigns
36211 campaigns
5357 campaigns
5899 campaigns
COE11 campaigns
3258 campaigns
3523 campaigns
3723 campaigns
389K5 campaigns
2002 campaigns
3002 campaigns

Peterbilt: all 43 model lines

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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. Peterbilt 389: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/peterbilt/389/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 29 Sep 2026.

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: PACCAR 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 Peterbilt 389 model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2009 with 12, 2008 with 12, 2015 with 10. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Peterbilt 389 model year has the most complaints?: The 2015 model year, with 7 of the 12 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Peterbilt 389 name?: Wheels: 4 component mentions. Tires: 3 component mentions. Electrical System: 2 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Peterbilt 389?: 4 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.