1998 Freightliner Classic

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine and engine cooling › engine. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Unknown or Other1
000
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Unknown or Other
Filed May 6, 2004OR

I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT A TRANSPORTATION COMPANY HERE LOCALLY IS BREAKING THE LAW BY NOT KEEPING COPIES OF THIER DRIVERS LOG BOOKS. THEY MAKE THEM DRIVE (FREIGHTLINERS) ILLEGALLY. THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE. WHEN RIGHTS ARE BROUGHT UP THE EMPLOYEES ARE FIRED FOR IT.

Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine
Filed Feb 11, 2003TN

THE VEHICLE JERKED AND THEN THE ENGINE LIGHT ILLUMINATED.*JB

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20080500Routine
20071600Routine
20061400Routine
20050300Routine
20040200Routine
20030100Routine
20016010Routine
20002100Routine
19991010Routine
1998 — this page2000Routine
19961000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.