2015 FREIGHTLINER M2 — Complaint #1764732
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:VACUUM:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed August 24, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1764732 (ODI reference 11430284) concerns a 2015 FREIGHTLINER M2 and was filed on August 24, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 22, 2021. The vehicle had 22,800 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Arizona based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:power assist:vacuum:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings, 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 FREIGHTLINER M2 cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:power assist:vacuum:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings 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 2015 FREIGHTLINER M2 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 Freightliner M2. The contact stated that overnight the braking system lost air pressure which activated the alert. Upon inspection, it was discovered that the lower brake air pressure hose clamp head had made contact with the radiator causing the braking system air pressure hard line to become damaged and causing air pressure to leak from the braking system. The failure was not yet repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The local dealer was not yet contacted. The failure mileage was 22,800.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1764732 |
| ODI Number | 11430284 |
| Date Filed | August 24, 2021 |
| Failure Date | August 22, 2021 |
| VIN | 1FVACXCY5FH |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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