Freightliner XLS Recalls & Complaints by Model Year

NHTSA lists 1 safety recall and 1 owner complaint across 1 model year of the Freightliner XLS (2000). The most-complained-about year is 2000.

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• 2000

What Freightliner XLS owners complain about

Across all model years, owners have filed 1 complaint with NHTSA. The 2000 model year has the most, with 1.

• Engine and engine cooling: gasoline1

All Freightliner XLS recalls (1)

Every NHTSA safety campaign that lists a Freightliner XLS, most recent first, with the model years each one covers.

1. Automatic transmission (power train)

   NHTSA 00V229001 Reported August 17, 2000 594 vehicles potentially affected FREIGHTLINER CORPORATION

   Vehicle description: heavy duty trucks, shuttle buses, transit buses and step vans equipped with allison 1000 or 2400 series transmissions. These transmissions can experience park pawl to rear cover interference due to an out of flatness condition.

   Remedy: Allison transmission is conducting the owner notification and remedy for this campaign. Dealers will remove the transmission from the vehicle, replace the park pawl, and reinstall the transmission in the vehicle. Owner…

   Model years: 2000

Other Freightliner models

• Cascadia253 complaints
• Freightliner135 complaints
• Columbia96 complaints
• Conventional76 complaints
• Business Class M254 complaints
• Century53 complaints
• Sprinter 250049 complaints
• FL-7037 complaints

Source: NHTSA recall and complaint databases and EPA fuel economy data, October 2026. Complaint counts are owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects. Recall counts are safety campaigns that list this model year; whether a particular car was already repaired depends on its VIN. How this data is compiled.