Total Complaints
1 filings
Kenworth Aerocab · model year
1 NHTSA complaints. A VIN lookup is required to determine whether a specific vehicle has an unrepaired recall.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The 2008KenworthAerocab carries 1 consumer safety complaint in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 1 fire, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
The most frequently selected component label in reports for the 2008 Aerocab is electrical system with 1 filings. Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 3 investigation files overlapping the 2008 Aerocab. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should read the complaint-by-year trend as report volume, not a causal diagnosis. Use the related-complaint feed and the official recall lookup when researching a specific vehicle.
PlainCars' own composite of NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings and rollover-risk assessment, each dimension normalized against the federal scale or the full national model-year corpus. Not an official NHTSA figure, and not a substitute for a specific vehicle's VIN-level recall check.
Total Complaints
1 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | 1 |
I AM NOT THE OWNER OF THE ABOVE VEHICLE JUST A CERTIFIED FIRE INVESTIGATOR IAAI-CFI. ON OCTOBER 31, 2011 I WAS ASSIGNED THE TASK OF DOING AN ORIGIN AND CAUSE INVESTIGATION INTO THE FIRE OF THE ABOVE VEHICLE THAT WAS SITTING FOR SALE ON THE OVERFLOW LOT OF RHIM TRUCK SALES ST PAUL, MN. MY INVESTIGATION LED ME TO THE WIRE HARNESS/COMPUTER CONTROL BOX AS THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE. I HAD BEEN INFORMED THAT THE TRUCK WAS PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY A CATTLE COMPANY PARKED IN A RURAL SETTING AND WAS EXPOSED TO RODENT ACTIVITY. HOW EVER I WAS DISCUSSING THIS INCIDENT WITH ANOTHER FIRE INVESTIGATOR FROM FLORIDA WHO STATED THAT HE HAD JUST INVESTIGATED A SIMILAR FIRE IN A PETERBUILT BUT THAT VEHICLE WAS NOT PARKED IN A RURAL SETTING BUT DID HAVE AROUND 500,000 ON ITS ODOMETER AS WELL BOTH VEHICLES ARE MANUFACTURED BY PACCAR BOTH VEHICLES WERE PARKED AND THEIR ENGINES WERE NOT OPERATING PRIOR TO OR DURING THE FIRE. IN THE VEHICLE FIRE THAT I INVESTIGATED, THE VEHICLE HAD BEEN SITTING IN THE LOT FOR A
Mileage: 500,000
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. This year-specific record is rendered from NHTSA ODI, recall, and NCAP rows for the 2008 Kenworth Aerocab; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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