Freightliner 108sd, Freightliner 114sd, Freightliner Business Class M2, Freightliner Cascadia, Western Star 47x, model year 2025. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 1 August 2024. 3,799 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2025 Freightliner 108SD, 114SD, Business Class M2, Cascadia and Western Star 47X vehicles. The tie rod in the front axle may contain ball studs that have been incorrectly heat-treated, which can cause them to break, and result in tie rod failure.
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: F1007. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V571 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 24V571 cover?
- Freightliner 108Sd, Freightliner 114Sd, Freightliner Business Class M2, Freightliner Cascadia, Western Star 47X, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2025 Freightliner 108SD, 114SD, Business Class M2, Cascadia and Western Star 47X vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Tie rod failure can cause a loss of vehicle steering control and increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the tie rod assembly, as necessary free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 27, 2024. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 800-745-8000. DTNA's number for this recall is F1007.
- 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 F1007, 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: “Tie rod failure can cause a loss of vehicle steering control and increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V571 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Trucks North America, LLC |
| System at fault | Steering:Linkages:Tie Rod Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 August 2024 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | FREIGHTLINER 108SD, FREIGHTLINER 114SD, FREIGHTLINER BUSINESS CLASS M2, FREIGHTLINER CASCADIA, WESTERN STAR 47X |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Tie rod failure can cause a loss of vehicle steering control and increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the tie rod assembly, as necessary free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 27, 2024. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 800-745-8000. DTNA's number for this recall is F1007.
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 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 2024438, recorded 31 July 2024 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on F1007, 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
- Freightliner 108sd recalls: 51 US campaigns
- Freightliner 114sd recalls: 66 US campaigns
- Freightliner Business Class M2 recalls: 82 US campaigns
- Freightliner Cascadia recalls: 124 US campaigns
- Western Star 47x recalls: 21 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 24V571, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v571/
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 24V571 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
aebf2825 - Consequence
502835d0 - 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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