Freightliner Cascadia: Air bags — frontal

Affects Freightliner Cascadia · 2018–2020 — about 3K vehicles.

The hazard

If the driver's frontal air bag deploys unexpectedly, it can increase the risk of a crash.

What to do

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) will notify owners, and dealers will remove the air bag as an the interim remedy, free of charge. DTNA is developing a remedy program, which when available, will be communicated to customers and dealers. DTNA issued owners an interim notification on April 5, 2019. The recall began July 19, 2019. Owners may contact Daimler Trucks customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL806. This recall supersedes recall 18V-787.

Critical — crash/injury risk now High — injury risk; see remedy Moderate — fix at next service Low — minor / informational