Western Star 4900: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 83 recall campaigns for the Western Star 4900, model years 1998 to 2023. NHTSA has 17 complaints on file for this model line. 26 of the 26 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.
- 19982
- 19992
- 20003
- 20013
- 20022
- 20032
- 20045
- 20057
- 200610
- 200714
- 200817
- 200916
- 201014
- 201114
- 20128
- 20138
- 201411
- 201514
- 201610
- 201716
- 201816
- 201915
- 20207
- 20219
- 20227
- 20234
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
26 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Tires | 192.3 | 5 |
| Structure | 153.8 | 4 |
| Suspension | 76.9 | 2 |
| Visibility | 76.9 | 2 |
| Fuel/Propulsion System | 76.9 | 2 |
| Wheels | 76.9 | 2 |
| Air Bags | 38.5 | 1 |
| Power Train | 38.5 | 1 |
| Visibility/Wiper | 38.5 | 1 |
| Exterior Lighting | 38.5 | 1 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- 470049 campaigns
- 570027 campaigns
- Conventional18 campaigns
- 47X21 campaigns
- Western Star15 campaigns
- Constellation5 campaigns
- 4900EX3 campaigns
- 49X30 campaigns
- 690019 campaigns
- 57X6 campaigns
- 48004 campaigns
- Heritage7 campaigns
- 58002 campaigns
- WJ1212 campaigns
Western Star: all 15 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. Western Star 4900: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/western-star/4900/. 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
- 30 Sep 2026
- Complaint file through
- 30 Sep 2026
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- FREIGHTLINER CORPORATION
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 Western Star 4900 model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2008 with 17, 2018 with 16, 2017 with 16. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Western Star 4900 model year has the most complaints?
- The 2014 model year, with 3 of the 17 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Western Star 4900 name?
- Tires: 5 component mentions. Structure: 4 component mentions. Suspension: 2 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Western Star 4900?
- 2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.