Freightliner Custom Chass Xcr, model years 2014 to 2017. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America LLC and reported to NHTSA on 17 July 2017. 1,308 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is recalling certain 2014-2017 Freightliner Custom Chassis XCR chassis. A battery cable mounting bracket may not have been installed correctly, as a result, the improperly routed and clipped battery cable can contact the frame rail, possibly chafing and short circuiting.
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.
Dtna's own number for this recall: FL741. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V451 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 17V451 cover?
- Freightliner Custom Chass XCR, model years 2014-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is recalling certain 2014-2017 Freightliner Custom Chassis XCR chassis.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A battery cable short circuit can increase the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and revise the battery cable mounting bracket and cable routing, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on September 14, 2017. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-745-8000. DTNA's number for this recall is FL741.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Dtna calls this recall FL741, 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: “A battery cable short circuit can increase the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V451 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Trucks North America LLC |
| System at fault | Electrical System:12v/24v/48v Battery:Cables |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 July 2017 |
| Model years | 2014-2017 |
| Vehicles named | FREIGHTLINER CUSTOM CHASS XCR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A battery cable short circuit can increase the risk of a fire.
The remedy
DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and revise the battery cable mounting bracket and cable routing, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on September 14, 2017. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-745-8000. DTNA's number for this recall is FL741.
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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 17V451, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v451/
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 17V451 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
fcb1675f - Consequence
e9cc9802 - 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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