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2000 FORD F-SERIES — Complaint #392782

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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:AIR filed February 5, 2003

NHTSA complaint #392782 (ODI reference 10006620) concerns a 2000 FORD F-SERIES and was filed on February 5, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 1, 2003. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:conventional:air, 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 FORD F-SERIES cohort independently describe similar parking brake:conventional:air 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 2000 FORD F-SERIES shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2000 FORD F-SERIES
Component
PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:AIR
State
California

Complaint Description

BRAKE HAS BEEN REPLACED THREE OR MORE TIMES FOR A KNOCKING AND GRINDING NOISE. PLEASE FURNISH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. DEALER IS AWARE OF THE PROBLEM. PH

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 392782
ODI Number 10006620
Date Filed February 5, 2003
Failure Date February 1, 2003
VIN 1FAFP3438YW

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