Recall Register

Pierce Custom Contender: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 10 recall campaigns for the Pierce Custom Contender, model years 2000 to 2011. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 8 of the 12 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. 20001
  2. 20012
  3. 20021
  4. 20032
  5. 20041
  6. 20051
  7. 20062
  8. 20072
  9. 20085
  10. 20094
  11. 20103
  12. 20113
Pierce Custom Contender: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2011 Pierce Custom Contender300%801
2010 Pierce Custom Contender300%838
2009 Pierce Custom Contender400%1,065
2008 Pierce Custom Contender500%1,074
2007 Pierce Custom Contender200%34
2006 Pierce Custom Contender200%34
2005 Pierce Custom Contender NHTSA page100%25
2004 Pierce Custom Contender NHTSA page100%25
2003 Pierce Custom Contender200%6,828
2002 Pierce Custom Contender NHTSA page100%6,803
2001 Pierce Custom Contender211200%6,857
2000 Pierce Custom Contender NHTSA page100%6,803

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.

Pierce Custom Contender: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Seat Belts1,0001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Pierce Custom Contender, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2011, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Pierce Custom Contender, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Pierce: all 13 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Pierce Custom Contender: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pierce/custom-contender/. 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

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 Custom Contender model years have the most recall campaigns?
2008 with 5, 2009 with 4, 2011 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Pierce Custom Contender model year has the most complaints?
The 2001 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 Custom Contender name?
Seat Belts: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Pierce Custom Contender?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.