1994 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONAL — Complaint #321431
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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL:WRECKER AND WHEEL LIFT DEVICES filed November 5, 2001
NHTSA complaint #321431 (ODI reference 9003537) concerns a 1994 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONAL and was filed on November 5, 2001. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 12, 2001. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:mechanical:wrecker and wheel lift devices, 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 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONAL cohort independently describe similar equipment:mechanical:wrecker and wheel lift devices 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 1994 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONAL shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
CENTURY 602 WHEELLIFT INSTALLED ON VEHICLE DESCRIBED ON PRIOR FORM, WE FEEL IT IS A PRODUCT DESIGN FAILURE, RESULTING IN LOSS OF CONTROL CAUSING SOLO CRASH TOTALING OUR TRUCK AND DAMAGING OUR CUSTOMERS TRUCK THAT WAS TOWED. RELEASE HANDLE AND PIN ON WHEEL LIFT DEFECTIVE.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 321431 |
| ODI Number | 9003537 |
| Date Filed | November 5, 2001 |
| Failure Date | July 12, 2001 |
| VIN | 1HTSAZRMIRH |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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