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Sterling Bullet 5500 Recalls & Complaints by Model Year

NHTSA lists 1 safety recall and 6 owner complaints across 2 model years of the Sterling Bullet 5500 (2008–2009). The most-complained-about year is 2008.

1
safety recalls, all years
6
owner complaints, all years
2008
year with most recalls
2008
year with most complaints

Pick your Sterling Bullet 5500 model year

Model yearRecallsComplaints
2009 Sterling Bullet 550011
2008 Sterling Bullet 550015

What Sterling Bullet 5500 owners complain about

Across all model years, owners have filed 6 complaints with NHTSA. The 2008 model year has the most, with 5.

All Sterling Bullet 5500 recalls (1)

Every NHTSA safety campaign that lists a Sterling Bullet 5500, most recent first, with the model years each one covers.

  1. Inflator module (air bags)

    NHTSA 16V418000 Reported 2,601 vehicles potentially affected Daimler Trucks North America LLC

    Daimler Trucks of North America (DTNA) is recalling certain model year 2008-2009 Sterling Bullet 4500 and 5500 chassis cab vehicles manufactured October 15, 2007, through November 10, 2008. These vehicles are equipped with certain air bag inflators assembled as part of the passenger frontal air bag modules, and used as original…

    Remedy: Sterling will notify the owners and dealers will replace the passenger frontal air bag inflator, free of charge. An interim letter was mailed to owners on July 22, 2016. The remedy is now available. Notification was…

    Model years: 2008, 2009

Other Sterling models

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.