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2005 INTERNATIONAL RE — Complaint #555744

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:SLACK ADJUSTERS:AUTOMATIC filed September 23, 2005

NHTSA complaint #555744 (ODI reference 10137483) concerns a 2005 INTERNATIONAL RE and was filed on September 23, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 7, 2005. The report was geocoded to Minnesota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:slack adjusters:automatic, 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 INTERNATIONAL RE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:slack adjusters:automatic 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 2005 INTERNATIONAL RE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2005 INTERNATIONAL RE
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:SLACK ADJUSTERS:AUTOMATIC
State
Minnesota

Complaint Description

MY COMPANY PURCHASED 3 2005 SIDE-DUMP TRAILERS, MANUFACTURED BY SIDUMP'R TRAILER CO., HWY 13 AND 20, PLAINVIEW, NE, 68769. THESE TRAILERS CAME EQUIPPED WITH AUTOMATIC SLACK ADJUSTERS AND AIR CHAMBERS MANUFACTURED BY CREWSON INDUSTRIES, 1800 BROADWAY, BLDG 3, BUFFALO, NY 14212. THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE AUTOMATIC SLACK ADJUSTERS, WHICH ARE SUPPOSED TO MAINTAIN SHOE TO DRUM CLEARANCE AT A FIXED AMOUNT, OVERTIGHTEN THE BRAKES ON TWO WHEEL POSITIONS ON EACH OF THE THREE TRAILERS. THE SECOND PROBLEM IS THAT THE BRAKE CHAMBERS, ALSO SUPPLIED BY CREWSON, DISINTEGRATE AROUND THE ATTACHING BOLTS AND FALL OFF THE TRAILER. THE END RESULT, IF UNDETECTED, IS, IN THE CASE OF THE SLACK ADJUSTER, WHEEL LOCKUP OR BRAKE SHOE FIRE. IN THE CASE OF THE BRAKE CHAMBER, TOTAL LOSS OF BRAKING. UPON INQUIRING AS TO THE FREQUENCY OF THESE PROBLEMS, I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT IT IS QUITE WIDESPREAD AMONG OTHER PURCHASERS OF THESE TRAILERS. I HAVE CONTACTED CREWSON INDUSTRIES AND THEY HAVE SENT REPRESENTATIVES TO

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 555744
ODI Number 10137483
Date Filed September 23, 2005
Failure Date January 7, 2005

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