1999 VOLVO HEAVY TRUCK — Complaint #370830
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:CONTROLS:FOOT CONTROL/VALVE filed August 28, 2002
NHTSA complaint #370830 (ODI reference 565522) concerns a 1999 VOLVO HEAVY TRUCK and was filed on August 28, 2002. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:controls:foot control/valve, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 VOLVO HEAVY TRUCK cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:controls:foot control/valve 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 1999 VOLVO HEAVY TRUCK shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
FOOD LION DRIVER STATES THAT BRAKES FREEZE UP IN COLD, AND THE THEY THINK THAT IT HAS TO DO WITH THE FOOT VALVE BEING TOO SMALL TO HANDLE THE AIR OF THE OTHER VALVES. *MJ
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 370830 |
| ODI Number | 565522 |
| Date Filed | August 28, 2002 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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