Recall Register

Pierce Velocity: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 56 recall campaigns for the Pierce Velocity, model years 1998 to 2026. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 27 of the 29 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. 19981
  2. 19992
  3. 20002
  4. 20012
  5. 20022
  6. 20033
  7. 20044
  8. 20054
  9. 20066
  10. 200715
  11. 200817
  12. 200916
  13. 201017
  14. 201114
  15. 201212
  16. 201312
  17. 20148
  18. 201517
  19. 201615
  20. 20179
  21. 20188
  22. 20199
  23. 20208
  24. 20218
  25. 20226
  26. 20234
  27. 20242
  28. 20252
  29. 20261
Pierce Velocity: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Pierce Velocity NHTSA page100%674
2025 Pierce Velocity200%725
2024 Pierce Velocity200%682
2023 Pierce Velocity400%1,060
2022 Pierce Velocity600%1,869
2021 Pierce Velocity800%4,528
2020 Pierce Velocity800%4,478
2019 Pierce Velocity900%4,652
2018 Pierce Velocity800%5,812
2017 Pierce Velocity900%5,454
2016 Pierce Velocity1512900%3,372
2015 Pierce Velocity1700%3,465
2014 Pierce Velocity800%1,764
2013 Pierce Velocity1200%4,448
2012 Pierce Velocity1200%4,701
2011 Pierce Velocity1400%5,456
2010 Pierce Velocity1700%7,599
2009 Pierce Velocity1600%6,985
2008 Pierce Velocity1700%9,649
2007 Pierce Velocity1500%9,098
2006 Pierce Velocity600%4,768
2005 Pierce Velocity400%3,896
2004 Pierce Velocity400%3,896
2003 Pierce Velocity300%2,902
2002 Pierce Velocity200%2,877
2001 Pierce Velocity200%2,877
2000 Pierce Velocity200%2,877
1999 Pierce Velocity200%2,877
1998 Pierce Velocity NHTSA page100%2,652

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 Velocity: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Wheels1,0001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Pierce Velocity, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2009, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Pierce Velocity, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Pierce: all 13 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Pierce Velocity: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pierce/velocity/. 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 Velocity model years have the most recall campaigns?
2015 with 17, 2010 with 17, 2008 with 17. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Pierce Velocity model year has the most complaints?
The 2016 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 Velocity name?
Wheels: 1 component mention.