2000 FORD F-SERIES — Complaint #392782
Open-data reference.
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.
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.
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