Kenworth T280, Kenworth T380, Kenworth T480, Kenworth T680, Kenworth T880, Kenworth W990, model year 2027. Filed by PACCAR Incorporated and reported to NHTSA on 27 July 2026. 5,925 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2027 Peterbilt and Kenworth vehicles. Please see the recall report for a complete list of models. The power distribution center (PDC) box may be contaminated with oil, which could result in a loss of drive power, Antilock Brake System (ABS) functionality, exterior …
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: 26PACD. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V485 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 26V485 cover?
- Kenworth T280, Kenworth T380, Kenworth T480, Kenworth T680, Kenworth T880, Kenworth W990, Peterbilt 536, Peterbilt 537, model year 2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2027 Peterbilt and Kenworth vehicles. Please see the recall report for a complete list of models.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of lighting, windshield wipers, ABS function, or a loss of drive power can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Dealers will inspect the PDC serial numbers, and replace the PDC boxes as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed September 25, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available.
- 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 26PACD, 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 lighting, windshield wipers, ABS function, or a loss of drive power can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V485 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | PACCAR Incorporated |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Wiring:Power Distribution Module/Ipdm |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2027-2027 |
| Vehicles named | KENWORTH T280, KENWORTH T380, KENWORTH T480, KENWORTH T680, KENWORTH T880, KENWORTH W990, PETERBILT 536, PETERBILT 537, PETERBILT 548, PETERBILT 567, PETERBILT 579, PETERBILT 589 |
What the notice says today
The defect
PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2027 Peterbilt and Kenworth vehicles. Please see the recall report for a complete list of models. The power distribution center (PDC) box may be contaminated with oil, which could result in a loss of drive power, Antilock Brake System (ABS) functionality, exterior lighting, windshield wipers, or the defogging system. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard numbers 103, "Windshield Defrosting and Defogging Systems," 104, "Windshield Wiping and Washing Systems," and 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
The consequence
A loss of lighting, windshield wipers, ABS function, or a loss of drive power can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect the PDC serial numbers, and replace the PDC boxes as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed September 25, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available. Owners may contact Peterbilt's customer service at 1-940-591-4220 and Kenworth's customer service at 1-425-828-5888. PACCAR's number for this recall is 26PACD.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 0792ca8d49aa6e5d205e82ecc0697341…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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 . 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 inspect the PDC serial numbers, and replace the PDC boxes as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed September 25, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available. Owners may contact Peterbilt's customer service at 1-940-591-4220 and Kenworth's customer service at 1-425-828-5888. PACCAR's number for this recall is 26PACD.
After: Dealers will inspect the PDC serial numbers, and replace the PDC boxes as necessary, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed September 23, 2026. Owners may contact Peterbilt's customer service at 1-940-591-4220 and Kenworth's customer service at 1-425-828-5888. PACCAR's number for this recall is 26PACD.
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 2026367, recorded 27 July 2026
Matched on 26PACD, 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
- 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 536 recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 537 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 548 recalls: 22 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 567 recalls: 57 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 579 recalls: 59 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 589 recalls: 9 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 26V485, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v485/
The copy quoted above hashes to 0792ca8d49aa6e5d205e82ecc0697341…. 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.
Other Paccar notices we hold
- 26V544: 2027 Peterbilt 567, 579, 589 and 2027 Kenworth T680, T880, and W990
- 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
- 25V181: 2022-2025 Peterbilt 520, 579, and 2021-2025 Kenworth T680 trucks
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 26V485 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
a006f045 - Consequence
b496a8e5 - 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.
The wording we hold for 26V485 · how the whole register is watched
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