2000 International Harvester 2000 & 2000 International Harvester 3000 + 3 more recall: brakes
⚠️ What's wrong
Vehicle description: school and heavy duty trucks built with bendix air ABS. The ABS sensor wires on rotating parts chafes which CAN lead to a false signal being sent to the bendix ABS electronic control unit (ECU).
💥 The risk
This could cause the air ABS ECU to exhaust the air at the air brake modulators for one or more of the wheels.
🔧 The fix
Dealers will inspect the sensor wiring routing and re-route or replace the ABS sensors as required.
Is the fix free? Yes. Safety recall repairs are free at any authorized dealer under federal law, including parts and labor. (Vehicles more than 15 years old when the recall was announced can be excluded, but most manufacturers still fix them.)
- NHTSA campaign
- 00V176000
- Manufacturer recall #
- 00505
- Manufacturer
- INTERNATIONAL TRUCK AND ENGINE
- Vehicles affected
- 104,302
- Component
- SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP
- Owner phone
- 1-800-448-7825
- NHTSA hotline
- 1-888-327-4236
- Owner letters mailed
- Jul 12, 2000
- Built
- Mar 1, 1998 – May 29, 2000
- Recall started by
- MFR
- Notes
- Owner notification began july 12, 2000. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact international at 1-800-448-7825. Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).