Recall Register

Pierce Arrow: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 5 recall campaigns for the Pierce Arrow, model years 1980 to 2013. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 9 of the 22 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. 19801
  2. 19811
  3. 19821
  4. 19832
  5. 19842
  6. 19852
  7. 19862
  8. 19872
  9. 19882
  10. 19893
  11. 19902
  12. 19912
  13. 19921
  14. 19931
  15. 19951
  16. 19961
  17. 19971
  18. 19981
  19. 19991
  20. 20001
  21. 20011
  22. 20130
Pierce Arrow: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2013 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page012200%
2001 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%6,803
2000 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%6,803
1999 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%6,803
1998 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%6,803
1997 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%6,803
1996 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%6,803
1995 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%6,803
1993 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%2,563
1992 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%2,563
1991 Pierce Arrow200%4,935
1990 Pierce Arrow200%4,935
1989 Pierce Arrow300%5,359
1988 Pierce Arrow200%4,935
1987 Pierce Arrow200%4,935
1986 Pierce Arrow200%4,935
1985 Pierce Arrow200%4,935
1984 Pierce Arrow200%4,935
1983 Pierce Arrow200%4,935
1982 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%2,372
1981 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%950
1980 Pierce Arrow NHTSA page100%950

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

2 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.

Pierce Arrow: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes5001
Parking Brake5001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Pierce Arrow, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Pierce Arrow, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2013, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Pierce: all 13 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Pierce Arrow: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pierce/arrow/. 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
PIERCE MANUFACTURING,INC.

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 Pierce Arrow model years have the most recall campaigns?
1989 with 3, 1991 with 2, 1990 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Pierce Arrow model year has the most complaints?
The 2013 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 Pierce Arrow name?
Service Brakes: 1 component mention. Parking Brake: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Pierce Arrow?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.