2001 Peterbilt Peterbilt

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the suspension. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Suspension1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Suspension
Filed Jun 14, 2002CO

THE VEHICLE?S FRONT END SHAKES AND THE VEHICLE WANDERS WHEN DRIVING OVER BUMPY ROADS. THE RIGHT FRONT AND LEFT FRONT WHEEL BEARINGS, STEERING U JOINT, STEERING WHEEL NUT WERE REPLACED AS A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE SHAKING BUT THE PROBLEM STILL CONTINUED. ALSO KING PINS AND BUSHINGS WERE REPLACED BUT IT DID NOT FIX THE PROBLEM. *YH

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1994
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20031000Routine
2001 — this page1000Routine
20002010Routine
19993300Routine
19981300Routine
19974210Routine
19963000Routine
19955350Routine
19946120Routine
19932200Routine
19920200Routine
19911000Routine

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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.