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Freightliner Sprinter 3500 Problems by Model Year

NHTSA recorded 7 consumer complaints across the 1 model years of the Freightliner Sprinter 3500 (2008–2008) that have at least 5 complaints. 2008 has the most, with 7. Across all years, the part named most often is air bags (4 mentions). Pick a model year below to see its parts, mileage, recalls and service bulletins.

All Sprinter 3500 model years

Years with fewer than 5 complaints are not listed. The score compares years of the same model, allowing for the era and for how long each year has collected complaints: 50 is a typical year, lower means fewer complaints. It is not adjusted for sales volume.

YearComplaintsMedian miRecallsTSBsScore (50 = typical)Trend
2008713,5586102—Not enough data

Parts named most often, all years

Counts add up complaint mentions across the listed years. A complaint can name several parts.

Example complaints

One per model year, chosen for length and detail. Personal details are removed. They are consumer reports, not findings.

2008: “Approx. 6:00am monday morning july 6th of 2015 I had a flat tire on the passenger side when I went to get in my truck for work. Upon inspection the leak was seeping thru the steel inner surface of the rim. Approx. 2 inches away from valve stem area. For the time being I decided to have the like new tire just put onto my oem spare (wheel & tire) and just used that to carry on with business. The tire store said they have never seen a factory steel wheel just leak air without a obvious reason. The only answer to continue to use the wheel was to have a inner-tube put in it. …”

NHTSA complaint #10760892, filed 2015-09, 118,000 miles

Other Freightliner models

Freightliner Cascadia
245 complaints
Freightliner Freightliner
112 complaints
Freightliner Columbia
86 complaints
Freightliner Conventional
58 complaints
Freightliner Century
36 complaints
Freightliner Business Class M2
31 complaints
Freightliner FS-65
29 complaints
Freightliner FL-70
24 complaints

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About this data. Data from NHTSA (ODI) complaints, recalls, TSBs and investigations, updated Oct 27, 2026. Complaints are unverified consumer reports and may be duplicated or inaccurate. Methodology