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2006 Freightliner FLD120 Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest May 30, 2013
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since May 30, 2013

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2006 Freightliner FLD120. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Driver assistanceEngineFuel system
Filed May 30, 2013

CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON THEN TRACTOR STARTING LOOSING POWER. TOOK TO W.W. WILLIAMS DETROIT DIESEL. THEY FOUND DELTA P SENSOR OUT OF CALIBRATION. V-POD CUTTING OUT, TURBO HAD EXCESSIVE PLAY IN VNT. THEY REPLACED THE V-POD WHICH WAS UNDER WARRANTY. THE SAME PROBLEM OCCURRED IN MARCH 2013. PROBLEMS. CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON, LOW POWER, BACK FIRES, PUFFS BLACK SMOKE. OIL LEAK BY TURBO. WW WILLIAMS STATED CAUSE AS BAD V-POD, TURBO DRAIN LINE. WW WILLLIAMS FOUND V-POD CUTTING OUT AND REPLACED V-POD AGAIN UNDER WARRANTY, TURBO DRAIN LINED REPLACED. SAME PROBLEM AGAIN ON 5/27/13 CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON AGAIN, LOOSING POWER. TOOK BACK TO WW WILLIAMS, THEY STATED CODE 39 CAME UP, BAD INJECTORS. REPLACED ALL INJECTORS, NOT UNDER WARRANTY. REPLACED V-POD AGAIN, UNDER WARRANTY. *TR

NHTSA ID
10514247
Incident
Jan 21, 2013
Mileage
500,000 mi

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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