Recall Register

Peterbilt 520: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 24 recall campaigns for the Peterbilt 520, model years 1990 to 2026. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 12 of the 37 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. 19921
  4. 19931
  5. 19941
  6. 19951
  7. 19961
  8. 19971
  9. 19981
  10. 19991
  11. 20001
  12. 20011
  13. 20021
  14. 20031
  15. 20041
  16. 20051
  17. 20061
  18. 20071
  19. 20081
  20. 20091
  21. 20101
  22. 20111
  23. 20121
  24. 20131
  25. 20141
  26. 20153
  27. 20164
  28. 20175
  29. 20188
  30. 20198
  31. 202012
  32. 20216
  33. 20224
  34. 20235
  35. 20248
  36. 20257
  37. 20262
Peterbilt 520: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Peterbilt 520200%56,479
2025 Peterbilt 520700%330,846
2024 Peterbilt 520800%323,513
2023 Peterbilt 520500%285,761
2022 Peterbilt 520400%284,160
2021 Peterbilt 520600%18,414
2020 Peterbilt 5201200%42,069
2019 Peterbilt 520813700%40,580
2018 Peterbilt 520800%40,580
2017 Peterbilt 520500%22,306
2016 Peterbilt 520400%17,255
2015 Peterbilt 520300%17,022
2014 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2013 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2012 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2011 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2010 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2009 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2008 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2007 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2006 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2005 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2004 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2003 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2002 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2001 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
2000 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
1999 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
1998 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
1997 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
1996 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
1995 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
1994 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
1993 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
1992 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
1991 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343
1990 Peterbilt 520 NHTSA page100%343

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.

Peterbilt 520: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes1,0001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Peterbilt 520, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2024, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Peterbilt 520, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2019, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Peterbilt: all 43 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Peterbilt 520: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/peterbilt/520/. 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
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 520 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2020 with 12, 2024 with 8, 2019 with 8. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Peterbilt 520 model year has the most complaints?
The 2019 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 Peterbilt 520 name?
Service Brakes: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Peterbilt 520?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.