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2005 WORKHORSE W20 — Complaint #584836

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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE:HYDRAULIC filed June 12, 2006

NHTSA complaint #584836 (ODI reference 10159661) concerns a 2005 WORKHORSE W20 and was filed on June 12, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 29, 2006. The vehicle had 4,000 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 parking brake:driveline:hydraulic, 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: 1, 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 WORKHORSE W20 cohort independently describe similar parking brake:driveline:hydraulic 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 WORKHORSE W20 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2005 WORKHORSE W20
Component
PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE:HYDRAULIC
Injuries
1
State
California
Mileage
4,000 mi

Complaint Description

FOR THE 3RD TIME IN ONE YEAR, THE AUTOMATIC PARKING BRAKE HAS LOCKED ON WHILE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD ANYWHERE FROM 30-65 MPH. THIS RESULTS IN RAPID DECELERATION AND THEN LEAVES YOU STRANDED ON THE HIGHWAY. IN THE LAST CASE, LAST MONTH, THE DECELERATION WAS SO QUICK THAT MY SON HIT HIS FACE ON THE DINING TABLE OF THE RV AND CUT HIS LIP OPEN. *NM

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 584836
ODI Number 10159661
Date Filed June 12, 2006
Failure Date May 29, 2006
VIN 5B4LP57G953

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