Kenworth K270, Kenworth K370, Kenworth L770, Kenworth T280, Kenworth T380, Kenworth T480, model year 2025. Filed by PACCAR Incorporated and reported to NHTSA on 12 June 2024. 7,410 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2025 Kenworth K270, K370, L770, T280, T380, T480, T680, T880, W900, W990, 2025 Peterbilt 220, 520, 536, 537, 548, 567, 579, and 589 trucks. The tie rod or drag link assembly may contain an improperly heat-treated ball stud, causing the ball stud to break.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 24V433 cover?
- Kenworth K270, Kenworth K370, Kenworth L770, Kenworth T280, Kenworth T380, Kenworth T480, Kenworth T680, Kenworth T880, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2025 Kenworth K270, K370, L770, T280, T380, T480, T680, T880, W900, W990, 2025 Peterbilt 220, 520, 536, 537, 548, 567, 579, and 589 trucks.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A broken ball stud can cause a complete loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to drive their vehicles until the remedy has been completed. Dealers will inspect and replace the tie rod and drag link assemblies as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 6, 2024.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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 broken ball stud can cause a complete loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V433 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | PACCAR Incorporated |
| System at fault | Steering:Linkages:Tie Rod Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 June 2024 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | KENWORTH K270, KENWORTH K370, KENWORTH L770, KENWORTH T280, KENWORTH T380, KENWORTH T480, KENWORTH T680, KENWORTH T880, KENWORTH W900, KENWORTH W990, PETERBILT 220, PETERBILT 520, PETERBILT 536, PETERBILT 537 |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The consequence
A broken ball stud can cause a complete loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to drive their vehicles until the remedy has been completed. Dealers will inspect and replace the tie rod and drag link assemblies as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 6, 2024. Owners may contact Kenworth customer service at 1-425-828-5888 and Peterbilt customer service at 1-940-591-4220. PACCAR's numbers for this recall are 24KWG and 24PBG.
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 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Kenworth K270 recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Kenworth K370 recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Kenworth L770 recalls: 4 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 W900 recalls: 45 US campaigns
- Kenworth W990 recalls: 22 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 220 recalls: 14 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 520 recalls: 24 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 536 recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 537 recalls: 19 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 24V433, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v433/
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
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 24V433 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
89959ed2 - Consequence
b29e7b07 - 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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