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2012 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY — Complaint #1170313

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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL:LINKAGE AND CABLE filed March 30, 2015

NHTSA complaint #1170313 (ODI reference 10702549) concerns a 2012 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY and was filed on March 30, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 27, 2015. The vehicle had 58,143 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:conventional:mechanical:linkage and cable, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY cohort independently describe similar parking brake:conventional:mechanical:linkage and cable failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2012 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2012 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY
Component
PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL:LINKAGE AND CABLE
State
Texas
Mileage
58,143 mi

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY. AFTER THE EMERGENCY BRAKE WAS ENGAGED, THE CABLE FRACTURED. AS A RESULT, THE EMERGENCY BRAKE AND PARKING BRAKE BECAME INOPERABLE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 58,143.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1170313
ODI Number 10702549
Date Filed March 30, 2015
Failure Date March 27, 2015
VIN 2C4RC1CG4CR

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.