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2003 FORD EXPEDITION — Complaint #436471

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DISC:PADS filed October 22, 2003

NHTSA complaint #436471 (ODI reference 10043359) concerns a 2003 FORD EXPEDITION and was filed on October 22, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 22, 2003. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:disc:pads, 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 EXPEDITION cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:disc:pads 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 2003 FORD EXPEDITION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2003 FORD EXPEDITION
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DISC:PADS
State
Florida

Complaint Description

EXCESSIVE BRAKE DUST ON WHEELS. AFTER CLEANING THE WHEELS ARE COMPLETELY BLACK AFTER ONE DAY. *LA

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 436471
ODI Number 10043359
Date Filed October 22, 2003
Failure Date October 22, 2003

Similar SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DISC:PADS Complaints for 2003 FORD EXPEDITION

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