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2016 International LF687 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 Jun 17, 2025
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 Dec 27, 2022

What this page shows

Our database holds 3 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2016 International LF687. 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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Tires & wheels
Filed Jun 17, 2025
Crash reported1 death reported

Driver Fatality RF steer tire (RoadMaster RM180+ 295/75R22.5) failed while driving on Interstate at 65 mph pulling a flatdeck trailer loaded with lumber. Vehicle departed the highway into a concrete ditch and the load from the trailer came forward crushing the cab of the tractor.

NHTSA ID
11667534
Incident
Dec 12, 2022
Tires & wheels
Filed Mar 19, 2025
Fire reported

See attached document for complaint.

NHTSA ID
11649180
Incident
Sep 26, 2024
Tires & wheels
Filed Dec 27, 2022

Minimizer sells a piece of plastic that bolts to the top of semi truck 5th wheel and under trailers. Minimizer claims this plastic is designed for frequent drop and hook applications. The plastic can't handle the huge forces between semi truck and trailer and is easily pushed off the 5th wheel leaving only the bolts sticking up out of the top of the 5th wheel. When this happens there is no grease between the trailer and 5th wheel plate, only the bolts sticking up and out of the top of the 5th wheel. As you can imagine the bolts dig into the underside of the trailer making steering a problem on the snow covered roadway. Minimizer Document #10005364 says to "continue to follow 5th wheel manufacturer's lubrication and maintenance recommendations for the locking mechanism and king pin." which requires grease and greasy parts to be in very close proximity to the plastic. The plastic cannot handle the grease, fact is, In the same document the Warranty excludes damage caused by exposure to chemicals such as grease. The plastic pushed off the truck in less then one week, which created a mechanical emergency. The truck and driver can't do anymore work until the nuts and bolts are removed from the 5th wheel plate and the 5th wheel is properly re-greased. The plastic cannot handle trailer drop and hook or be touched by grease.

NHTSA ID
11498924
Incident
Dec 2, 2022

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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