Fccc S2c, Fccc S2rv, Freightliner Business Class M2, Freightliner Em2, model years 2026 to 2027. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 22 July 2026. 23,276 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2026-2027 Freightliner EM2, Freightliner Custom Chassis S2RV, Freightliner Custom Chassis S2C, and Freightliner Business Class M2 vehicles. A software error may cause the low beam headlights to illuminate improperly.
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: F1036. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V475 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 26V475 cover?
- FCCC S2C, FCCC S2Rv, Freightliner Business Class M2, Freightliner Em2, model years 2026-2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2026-2027 Freightliner EM2, Freightliner Custom Chassis S2RV, Freightliner Custom Chassis S2C, and Freightliner Business Class M2 vehicles. A software error may cause the low beam headlights to illuminate improperly.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Insufficient low beam headlight illumination can reduce driver visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the headlight software, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 20, 2026. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is F1036.
- 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 F1036, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
- Has this notice changed since it was announced?
- Yes. The remedy was reworded on 16 Sep 2026. Both versions are on this page, with the date each was read.
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: “Insufficient low beam headlight illumination can reduce driver visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V475 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Trucks North America, LLC |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Headlights |
| Reported to NHTSA | 22 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2027 |
| Vehicles named | FCCC S2C, FCCC S2RV, FREIGHTLINER BUSINESS CLASS M2, FREIGHTLINER EM2 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2026-2027 Freightliner EM2, Freightliner Custom Chassis S2RV, Freightliner Custom Chassis S2C, and Freightliner Business Class M2 vehicles. A software error may cause the low beam headlights to illuminate improperly.
The consequence
Insufficient low beam headlight illumination can reduce driver visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will update the headlight software, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 20, 2026. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is F1036.
What it said before
This notice has been edited since it was first published. NHTSA shows only the current version. Both are below, read straight from the agency at the times shown, with the words that moved marked.
The remedy was rewritten
9 words added, 6 removed. The notice grew from 215 to 232 characters.
The remedy is currently under development. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 20, 2026. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is F1036.
Dealers will update the headlight software, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 20, 2026. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is F1036.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
This is one of 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . 1 change recorded in the wording since we started reading it daily, the latest on 26 September 2026.
Changed since our daily reading began
26 September 2026: the remedy was rewritten. Before: Dealers will update the headlight software, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 20, 2026. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is F1036.
After: Dealers will update the headlight software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 18, 2026. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is F1036.
Side by side
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 2026358, recorded 22 July 2026
Matched on F1036, 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
- FCCC S2c recalls: 7 US campaigns
- FCCC S2rv recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Freightliner Business Class M2 recalls: 82 US campaigns
- Freightliner Em2 recalls: 4 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 26V475, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v475/
The copy quoted above hashes to 46d3da9715ce132d29e25aba4ee0f361…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 26V475 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
0fdeb025 - Consequence
b96ba3b0 - 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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