Skip to the page
CARSMULTIVERSERecall alerts
ShareWhatsAppFacebookXEmail

Kenworth C500, Kenworth T660, Kenworth T680, Kenworth T800, Kenworth T880, Kenworth W900, model year 2017. Filed by PACCAR Incorporated and reported to NHTSA on 10 June 2016. 3,227 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain model year 2017 Kenworth C500, T660, T680, T800, T880, and W900 vehicles manufactured March 9, 2016, to April 26, 2016 and 2017 Peterbilt 320, 365, 367, 389, 567, 579, and 587 vehicles manufactured March 10, 2016, to May 6, 2016. The affected vehicles are equipped with …

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.

CarsMultiverse/Recalls

Paccar's own number for this recall: 616-C AND 16KWB. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V426 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 16V426 cover?
Kenworth C500, Kenworth T660, Kenworth T680, Kenworth T800, Kenworth T880, Kenworth W900, Peterbilt 320, Peterbilt 365, model year 2017.
What is wrong with them?
PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain model year 2017 Kenworth C500, T660, T680, T800, T880, and W900 vehicles manufactured March 9, 2016, to April 26, 2016 and 2017 Peterbilt 320, 365, 367, 389, 567, 579, and 587 vehicles manufactured March 10, 2016, to May 6, 2016.
What can happen if it is not put right?
An engine stall can increase the risk of a crash.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Cummins will notify owners, and Cummins dealers will replace the defective engine control modules, free of charge. The began on July 8, 2016. Owners may contact Cummins customer service at 1-800-343-7357, Kenworth customer service at 1-425-828-5000 or Peterbilt customer service at 1-940-591-4000.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Paccar calls this recall 616-C AND 16KWB, 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: “An engine stall can increase the risk of a crash.”

3,227vehicles potentially
affected
13models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 10 June 2016owners told 8 July 2016today
The defect reached the regulator on 10 June 2016. Owners were written to 28 days later, on 8 July 2016. 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 was quicker than most.
Campaign16V426
Filed byPACCAR Incorporated
System at faultElectrical System:Ignition:Module
Reported to NHTSA10 June 2016
Model years2017-2017
Vehicles namedKENWORTH C500, KENWORTH T660, KENWORTH T680, KENWORTH T800, KENWORTH T880, KENWORTH W900, PETERBILT 320, PETERBILT 365, PETERBILT 367, PETERBILT 389, PETERBILT 567, PETERBILT 579, PETERBILT 587

What the notice says today

The consequence

An engine stall can increase the risk of a crash.

The remedy

Cummins will notify owners, and Cummins dealers will replace the defective engine control modules, free of charge. The began on July 8, 2016. Owners may contact Cummins customer service at 1-800-343-7357, Kenworth customer service at 1-425-828-5000 or Peterbilt customer service at 1-940-591-4000. PACCAR's numbers for this recall are 16KWB (Kenworth) and 616-C (Peterbilt).

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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 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

Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:

CarsMultiverse, recall 16V426, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v426/

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.

Other Paccar notices we hold

All 138 Paccar campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record

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 16V426 on 23 August 2026, they were:

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 16V426 · how the whole register is watched

Put this notice on your site

A small badge that links here and names the register's reference. It costs one line of HTML and needs no key.

NHTSA 16V426, Kenworth C500 and 7 more, every version kept at CarsMultiverse

The badge is free to use. It links to this page and nowhere else, and it never shows advertising.

Owners of these cars

No register publishes what happens after the letter. Owners do: tell us, in two taps.

Anonymous: no account, no cookie, nothing you type is stored beyond these choices. Figures appear once 3 owners have answered, and are published with the record under CC BY 4.0.

Email me if this recall changes

Cite, embed or query this notice

Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.

Embed

<a href="https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v426/"><img src="https://carsmultiverse.com/badge/recall/16v426/" alt="Recall record on CarsMultiverse" width="360" height="64"></a>

Data: JSON · API · for AI tools · MCP server https://carsmultiverse.com/mcp