2025 Kenworth T880 steering fasteners may fail and cause crashes
PACCAR is recalling 2025 Kenworth T880 and other commercial vehicles due to steering arm and tie rod bracket fasteners that may fail, resulting in loss of steering control and increased crash risk.
What this means for you
Illness, injury, or structural failure has been reported. Stop using the product immediately and contact the manufacturer for a refund or repair.
Our severity reasoning: This recall involves a structural defect in a safety-critical steering system component. Fastener failure could cause loss of steering control and lead to crashes, meeting the Severe classification criteria for structural vehicle defects.
Plain-English summary
PACCAR Incorporated is recalling certain 2025 and 2024 Kenworth and Peterbilt commercial vehicles equipped with PACCAR 20k steer axles. The affected models include the 2025 Kenworth T880 and 2024 Kenworth T800 and T480, as well as multiple Peterbilt models (367, 389, 520, 548, 567). A total of 68 vehicles are potentially affected.
The steering arm and tie rod bracket fasteners on these vehicles may fail. If failure occurs, drivers could experience a loss of steering control, significantly increasing the risk of a crash.
PACCAR will notify affected owners and dealers will install new correctly torqued fasteners at no charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on January 21, 2025. Owners may contact Kenworth customer service at 1-425-828-5888 or Peterbilt customer service at 1-940-591-4220 for more information. Additional assistance is available from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153) or at nhtsa.gov.
The recalled product
- Product
- 2025 KENWORTH T880
- Brand
- KENWORTH
- Manufacturer
- PACCAR Incorporated
- Hazard
- fastener-failure
- steering-failure
- loss-of-control
- Affected units
- 68
Is your product affected?
Check your packaging against the codes below. If any of them match, the product is part of this recall.
Model numbers (8)
- T880
- T800
- 367
- 567
- 389
- 548
- T480
- 520
Distribution
Distributed nationwide across the United States.
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