Recall Register

Western Star 6900: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 19 recall campaigns for the Western Star 6900, model years 1998 to 2023. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 21 of the 23 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. 19991
  3. 20002
  4. 20012
  5. 20022
  6. 20032
  7. 20044
  8. 20055
  9. 20066
  10. 20074
  11. 20084
  12. 20094
  13. 20104
  14. 20113
  15. 20123
  16. 20134
  17. 20144
  18. 20153
  19. 20162
  20. 20175
  21. 20184
  22. 20192
  23. 20232
Western Star 6900: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2023 Western Star 6900200%185
2019 Western Star 6900200%13,228
2018 Western Star 6900400%451,557
2017 Western Star 6900500%476,417
2016 Western Star 6900200%463,115
2015 Western Star 6900300%465,341
2014 Western Star 6900400%491,651
2013 Western Star 6900400%566,859
2012 Western Star 6900300%566,552
2011 Western Star 6900300%566,552
2010 Western Star 6900400%591,914
2009 Western Star 6900400%591,914
2008 Western Star 6900400%591,914
2007 Western Star 6900400%153,690
2006 Western Star 6900612300%160,202
2005 Western Star 6900500%56,624
2004 Western Star 6900400%56,593
2003 Western Star 6900200%25,460
2002 Western Star 6900200%25,460
2001 Western Star 6900200%30,600
2000 Western Star 6900200%3,722
1999 Western Star 6900 NHTSA page100%3,500
1998 Western Star 6900 NHTSA page100%3,500

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.

Western Star 6900: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling1,0001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Western Star 6900, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2017, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Western Star 6900, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Western Star: all 15 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Western Star 6900: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/western-star/6900/. 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
29 Mar 2018
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 6900 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2006 with 6, 2017 with 5, 2005 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Western Star 6900 model year has the most complaints?
The 2006 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 Western Star 6900 name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Western Star 6900?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.