Kenworth T180, Kenworth T280, Kenworth T380, Kenworth T480, Kenworth T680, Kenworth T880, model years 2021 to 2025. Filed by PACCAR Incorporated and reported to NHTSA on 20 March 2024. 70,509 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2021-2024 Peterbilt 365, 367, 389, 535, 536, 537, 548, 567, 579, and 2021-2025 Kenworth T180, T280, T380, T480, T680, T880 and W990 trucks. The right-hand gear shifter stalk connectors may have been improperly crimped, resulting in a loss of communication.
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.
Paccar's own number for this recall: 24PBE/24KWE. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V190 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 24V190 cover?
- Kenworth T180, Kenworth T280, Kenworth T380, Kenworth T480, Kenworth T680, Kenworth T880, Kenworth W990, Peterbilt 365, model years 2021-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2021-2024 Peterbilt 365, 367, 389, 535, 536, 537, 548, 567, 579, and 2021-2025 Kenworth T180, T280, T380, T480, T680, T880 and W990 trucks.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of communication between the gear shifter and the transmission may result in the vehicle becoming disabled after coming to a stop, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the gear shifter assembly as necessary, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed December 15, 2025, then phased after that. Owners may contact Kenworth customer service at 1-425-828-5888 or Peterbilt customer service at 1-940-591-4220.
- 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 24PBE/24KWE, 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 loss of communication between the gear shifter and the transmission may result in the vehicle becoming disabled after coming to a stop, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V190 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | PACCAR Incorporated |
| System at fault | Power Train:Automatic Transmission:Lever And Linkage:Column Shift |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 March 2024 |
| Model years | 2021-2025 |
| Vehicles named | KENWORTH T180, KENWORTH T280, KENWORTH T380, KENWORTH T480, KENWORTH T680, KENWORTH T880, KENWORTH W990, PETERBILT 365, PETERBILT 367, PETERBILT 389, PETERBILT 535, PETERBILT 536, PETERBILT 537, PETERBILT 548 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A loss of communication between the gear shifter and the transmission may result in the vehicle becoming disabled after coming to a stop, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the gear shifter assembly as necessary, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed December 15, 2025, then phased after that. Owners may contact Kenworth customer service at 1-425-828-5888 or Peterbilt customer service at 1-940-591-4220. PACCAR's numbers for this recall are 24PBE and 24KWE.
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 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Kenworth T180 recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Kenworth T280 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Kenworth T380 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Kenworth T480 recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Kenworth T680 recalls: 59 US campaigns
- Kenworth T880 recalls: 54 US campaigns
- Kenworth W990 recalls: 22 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 365 recalls: 32 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 367 recalls: 41 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 389 recalls: 40 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 535 recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 536 recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 537 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 548 recalls: 22 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 24V190, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v190/
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
- 26V544: 2027 Peterbilt 567, 579, 589 and 2027 Kenworth T680, T880, and W990
- 26V485: 2027 Peterbilt and Kenworth
- 26V442: 2026-2027 Peterbilt 579 and 2027 Kenworth T680 tractors
- 26V022: 2026 Kenworth L770 and 2024-2026 Peterbilt 520
- 25V795: 2026 Peterbilt 567 and 589 trucks
- 25V569: 2024-2026 Kenworth T680, T880, and W990 trucks
- 25V353: 2024 Peterbilt 367, 2026 Peterbilt 548, 589, and 2024-2026 Peterbilt 567 trucks
- 25V182: 2021-2026 Peterbilt 220, 2022-2026 Kenworth K370, and 2020-2026 K270 Medium-Duty Battery Electric
All 138 Paccar campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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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 24V190 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
873342ce - Consequence
6da959fa - 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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