1999 FORD F-250 SD — Complaint #411394
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL:LINKAGE AND CABLE filed June 7, 2003
NHTSA complaint #411394 (ODI reference 10021204) concerns a 1999 FORD F-250 SD and was filed on June 7, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 10, 2003. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:conventional:mechanical:linkage and cable, 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 FORD F-250 SD cohort independently describe similar parking brake:conventional:mechanical:linkage and cable 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 FORD F-250 SD shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
PARKING BRAKE CABLE END PULLED OFF RENDERING PARKING BRAKE DISABLED. *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 411394 |
| ODI Number | 10021204 |
| Date Filed | June 7, 2003 |
| Failure Date | February 10, 2003 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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