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2004 FORD F-150 — Complaint #557950

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC filed October 10, 2005

NHTSA complaint #557950 (ODI reference 10139221) concerns a 2004 FORD F-150 and was filed on October 10, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 1, 2004. The vehicle had 10,578 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California 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.

Vehicle
2004 FORD F-150
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC
State
California
Mileage
10,578 mi

Complaint Description

FRONT BRAKES PULSATE. SEVERE PULSATION WHEN APPLYING BRAKES AT FREEWAY SPEEDS. FRONT END SHAKES VIOLENTLY. FIRST REPAIR (ROTOR REPLACEMENT) AT 10578 MILES. SECOND REPAIR (ROTOR REPLACEMENT) AT 16141 MILES. THIRD REPAIR (MACHINE ROTORS) 21260 MILES. *NM

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 557950
ODI Number 10139221
Date Filed October 10, 2005
Failure Date October 1, 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.