Consumer Complaint Detail

KENWORTH / W900 / 2004

Recalls
0 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
Complaints
Yes Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 004273000 Incident Date: Mar, 08 2004
Consumer's City: DULUTH Consumer's State: MN
Vehicle Transmission Type: MAN Manufacturers Name: PACCAR Incorporated
Model Name: W900 Model Year: 2004
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Electrical system:alternator/generator/regulator
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: Yes Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: May, 02 2004 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: Yes Purchase Date: -
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: No
Number of Cylinders: 0 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: This had happened to my parents. my dad drives a kenworth t2000 it is a brand new 2004. my dad was parking his truck for the night in waco, tx when he had smelt something burning. he opened the hood of the truck and there was a fire between the engine and the firewall. they believe the fire started with a wire on the alternator. our concern is the kenworth t2000 does not have a door on the sleeper birth. we believe that all semi trucks need one. if my parents had been sleeping there would have been no way for them to escape the truck if the fire had got big enough. i have wrote to other people but no one seems to care about it which shows me that no one gives a [xxx] thing, but i bet if they had died in that truck everyone would be complaining that no one had said a thing about it. i am begging you something needs to be done to make doors in the sleeper mandatory on all semi trucks with sleeper births.*ak information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6). *tr