2004 FORD F-150 — Complaint #506812
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC filed November 16, 2004
NHTSA complaint #506812 (ODI reference 10099827) concerns a 2004 FORD F-150 and was filed on November 16, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 23, 2004. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:disc, 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-150 cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:disc 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 2004 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
VIBRATION IN STEERING WHEEL. REPLACED FRONT/REAR ROTORS, RACK AND PINION, STEERING GEAR AND BALANCED ALL TIRES. *BF STEERING VIBRATION AT HWY SPEEDS. STEERING SHAKES WHEN BRAKING. *TC *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 506812 |
| ODI Number | 10099827 |
| Date Filed | November 16, 2004 |
| Failure Date | March 23, 2004 |
| VIN | 1FTPW12574K |
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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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