Caterpillar C15, model year 9999. Filed by Caterpillar Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 24 February 2011. 6,176 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Caterpillar is recalling certain c15 diesel engines manufactured from april 24, 2006, through march 27, 2009, sold and installed as original equipment for various heavy trucks. degradation of a combustion tube weld can result radial heat impingement on the body which may burn through certain bodies used on c15 engines.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 11E006 cover?
- Caterpillar C15.
- What is wrong with them?
- CATERPILLAR IS RECALLING CERTAIN C15 DIESEL ENGINES MANUFACTURED FROM APRIL 24, 2006, THROUGH MARCH 27, 2009, SOLD AND INSTALLED AS ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT FOR VARIOUS HEAVY TRUCKS.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- THIS COULD RESULT IN A FIRE.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. CATERPILLAR WILL NOTIFY OWNERS AND REPAIR THE VEHICLES FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON AUGUST 4, 2011. OWNERS MAY CONTACT CATERPILLAR TOLL-FREE AT 1-800-447-4986.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “THIS COULD RESULT IN A FIRE.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 11E006 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | CATERPILLAR INC. |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 February 2011 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | CATERPILLAR C15 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
THIS COULD RESULT IN A FIRE.
The remedy
CATERPILLAR WILL NOTIFY OWNERS AND REPAIR THE VEHICLES FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON AUGUST 4, 2011. OWNERS MAY CONTACT CATERPILLAR TOLL-FREE AT 1-800-447-4986.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 11E006, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/11e006/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 11E006 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
7557a86b - Consequence
355f4c8e - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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