2001 Western Star Constellation

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine and engine cooling › exhaust system › manifold/header/muffler/tail pipe. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Engine and Engine Cooling › Exhaust System › Manifold/Header/Muffler/Tail Pipe1
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What owners reported

Newest filings
Engine and Engine Cooling › Exhaust System › Manifold/Header/Muffler/Tail Pipe
Filed May 22, 2001OR

CONSUMER WAS TRAVELING ON HIGHWAY AND THERE WAS AN AIR LEAK. HE WAS SMELLING RUBBER. HE PULLED OVER TO SHOULDER. HEAT FROM MUFFLER WAS MELTING AIRBAG. DEALERSHIP WAS AWARE OF PROBLEM. *AK *SLC

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2011
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20120100Routine
20111100Routine
20100100Routine
20090100Routine
2001 — this page1000Routine
19991100Routine
19970200Routine
19960200Routine
19950200Routine

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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.