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Freightliner Business Class M2, model year 2010. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America and reported to NHTSA on 7 January 2011. 369 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Daimler trucks is recalling certain model year 2010 freightliner business class m2 vehicles manufactured from august 25, 2009, through september 3, 2009. these vehicles were built with out of specification inboard seat belt anchor plates that are not as robust as intended.

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.

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Mercedes-Benz's own number for this recall: FL-587. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 11V008 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.

What owners ask about this recall

Which vehicles does recall 11V008 cover?
Freightliner Business Class M2, model year 2010.
What is wrong with them?
DAIMLER TRUCKS IS RECALLING CERTAIN MODEL YEAR 2010 FREIGHTLINER BUSINESS CLASS M2 VEHICLES MANUFACTURED FROM AUGUST 25, 2009, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 3, 2009. THESE VEHICLES WERE BUILT WITH OUT OF SPECIFICATION INBOARD SEAT BELT ANCHOR PLATES THAT ARE NOT AS ROBUST AS INTENDED.
What can happen if it is not put right?
IN THE EVENT OF AN A CRASH, THE SEAT BELT ANCHORAGE MAY NOT CONTINUE TO HOLD IN PLACE THE SEAT BELT APPARATUS, INCREASING THE RISK OF THE BELT NOT RESTRAINING THE SEAT OCCUPANT AS INTENDED, AND INCREASING THE RISK OF INJURY TO THE OCCUPANT.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. DAIMLER TRUCKS WILL REPAIR THE VEHICLES AND REPLACE THE EXISTING SEAT BELT ANCHOR AS NECESSARY FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN ON OR BEFORE MARCH 11, 2011. OWNERS MAY CONTACT DAIMLER TRUCKS AT 1-800-547-0712.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Mercedes-Benz calls this recall FL-587, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.

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: “IN THE EVENT OF AN A CRASH, THE SEAT BELT ANCHORAGE MAY NOT CONTINUE TO HOLD IN PLACE THE SEAT BELT APPARATUS, INCREASING THE RISK OF THE BELT NOT RESTRAINING THE SEAT OCCUPANT AS INTENDED, AND INCREASING THE RISK OF INJURY TO THE OCCUPANT.”

369vehicles potentially
affected
1model named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 7 January 2011owners told 11 March 2011today
The defect reached the regulator on 7 January 2011. Owners were written to 63 days later, on 11 March 2011. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign took longer than most.
Campaign11V008
Filed byDAIMLER TRUCKS NORTH AMERICA
System at faultSeat Belts:Front:Anchorage
Reported to NHTSA7 January 2011
Model years2010-2010
Vehicles namedFREIGHTLINER BUSINESS CLASS M2

What the notice says today

The consequence

IN THE EVENT OF AN A CRASH, THE SEAT BELT ANCHORAGE MAY NOT CONTINUE TO HOLD IN PLACE THE SEAT BELT APPARATUS, INCREASING THE RISK OF THE BELT NOT RESTRAINING THE SEAT OCCUPANT AS INTENDED, AND INCREASING THE RISK OF INJURY TO THE OCCUPANT.

The remedy

DAIMLER TRUCKS WILL REPAIR THE VEHICLES AND REPLACE THE EXISTING SEAT BELT ANCHOR AS NECESSARY FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN ON OR BEFORE MARCH 11, 2011. OWNERS MAY CONTACT DAIMLER TRUCKS AT 1-800-547-0712.

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 451 notices in the record whose component field names seat belts. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The models named here, across their whole recall history

How to cite this record

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CarsMultiverse, recall 11V008, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/11v008/

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.

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