Brakes recalls

Hydraulic and air service brakes, master cylinders, calipers, lines, boosters and the parking brake. Includes anti-lock control where the fault is in braking rather than stability software.

174
Campaigns: 32
Manufacturers: 19
Urgent orders: 13
Years covered

Campaigns by year issued

Counts are of campaigns received by NHTSA in each calendar year. They are not normalised by how many vehicles were on the road, so a taller bar does not by itself mean the system became less reliable.

2014
4
2015
10
2016
13
2017
9
2018
14
2019
14
2020
19
2021
25
2022
12
2023
18
2024
15
2025
20
2026
1

Manufacturers most affected

By number of campaigns touching this system. Larger manufacturers naturally appear more often because they sell more vehicles and more nameplates.

Ford26
Chevrolet18
GMC14
Hyundai13
Volkswagen12
Nissan12
Toyota11
Cadillac11
Lincoln10
Kia10
Dodge8
Ram7

Recent brakes campaigns

Showing the 60 most recent of 174.

Method & limitations

Campaigns are grouped by the first segment of NHTSA's component path and mapped to this system through a published alias table. Counts reflect campaigns in the VerifyTheVehicle index, which covers a subset of all US vehicles, and are not defect rates — we hold no registration or sales denominator that would make a rate honest.

Systems by recall activity Methodology NHTSA source