Kenworth T440, Kenworth T470, Kenworth T660, Kenworth T680, Kenworth T880, model years 2011 to 2016. Filed by PACCAR Incorporated and reported to NHTSA on 22 July 2015. 12,551 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain model year 2011-2016 Kenworth T440, T470, T660, T680, and T880 trucks manufactured January 14, 2010, to May 22, 2015, and equipped with HID Headlamps and the option for Daytime Running Lamps (DRL). The DRLs are required to deactivate when the hazard warning lights are …
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The maker's own number for this recall: 15KWL. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 15V458 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 15V458 cover?
- Kenworth T440, Kenworth T470, Kenworth T660, Kenworth T680, Kenworth T880, model years 2011-2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain model year 2011-2016 Kenworth T440, T470, T660, T680, and T880 trucks manufactured January 14, 2010, to May 22, 2015, and equipped with HID Headlamps and the option for Daytime Running Lamps (DRL).
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the hazard warning lamps are overridden by the DRL, oncoming vehicles may fail to be warned, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Kenworth will notify owners, and dealers will update the cab controller software, free of charge. The recall began on September 167, 2015. Owners may contact Kenworth customer service at 1-425-828-5000. Kenworth's number for this recall is 15KWL.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 15KWL, 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: “If the hazard warning lamps are overridden by the DRL, oncoming vehicles may fail to be warned, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15V458 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | PACCAR Incorporated |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Hazard Flashing Warning Lights |
| Reported to NHTSA | 22 July 2015 |
| Model years | 2011-2016 |
| Vehicles named | KENWORTH T440, KENWORTH T470, KENWORTH T660, KENWORTH T680, KENWORTH T880 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the hazard warning lamps are overridden by the DRL, oncoming vehicles may fail to be warned, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Kenworth will notify owners, and dealers will update the cab controller software, free of charge. The recall began on September 167, 2015. Owners may contact Kenworth customer service at 1-425-828-5000. Kenworth's number for this recall is 15KWL.
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 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2015316, recorded 20 July 2015 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 15KWL, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Kenworth T440 recalls: 27 US campaigns
- Kenworth T470 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Kenworth T660 recalls: 40 US campaigns
- Kenworth T680 recalls: 59 US campaigns
- Kenworth T880 recalls: 54 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 15V458, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15v458/
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.
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 15V458 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
68a84d4c - Consequence
c7517b78 - 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.
The wording we hold for 15V458 · how the whole register is watched
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