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Paccar recall 26V544 (26PACE): Kenworth T680, Kenworth T880, Kenworth W990 and 3 more (2027)

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Kenworth T680, Kenworth T880, Kenworth W990, Peterbilt 567, Peterbilt 579, Peterbilt 589, model year 2027. Filed by PACCAR Incorporated and reported to NHTSA on 21 August 2026. 811 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2027 Peterbilt 567, 579, 589 and 2027 Kenworth T680, T880, and W990 vehicles. The seat ventilation harness may be missing heat-shrink, resulting in a short circuit.

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.

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Paccar's own number for this recall: 26PACE. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V544 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 26V544 cover?
Kenworth T680, Kenworth T880, Kenworth W990, Peterbilt 567, Peterbilt 579, Peterbilt 589, model year 2027.
What is wrong with them?
PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2027 Peterbilt 567, 579, 589 and 2027 Kenworth T680, T880, and W990 vehicles. The seat ventilation harness may be missing heat-shrink, resulting in a short circuit.
What can happen if it is not put right?
A short circuit increases the risk of a fire.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the harnesses, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 20, 2026. Owners may contact Peterbilt's customer service at 1-940-591-4220 or Kenworth's customer service at 1-425-828-5888. PACCAR's number for this recall is 26PACE.
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 26PACE, 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 short circuit increases the risk of a fire.”

811vehicles potentially
affected
6models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 21 August 2026no notification date publishedtoday
The defect was reported to the regulator on 21 August 2026. No owner-notification date has been published for this campaign, so the bar is left open.
Campaign26V544
Filed byPACCAR Incorporated
System at faultSeats:Front Assembly:Seat Heater/Cooler
Reported to NHTSA21 August 2026
Model years2027-2027
Vehicles namedKENWORTH T680, KENWORTH T880, KENWORTH W990, PETERBILT 567, PETERBILT 579, PETERBILT 589

What the notice says today

The consequence

A short circuit increases the risk of a fire.

The remedy

Dealers will replace the harnesses, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 20, 2026. Owners may contact Peterbilt's customer service at 1-940-591-4220 or Kenworth's customer service at 1-425-828-5888. PACCAR's number for this recall is 26PACE.

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 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The models named here, across their whole recall history

How to cite this record

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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V544, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v544/

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.

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We first read this notice on 27 August 2026 and have caught it being edited 1 time since.

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