2005 FORD FREESTYLE — Complaint #614244
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC filed February 22, 2007
NHTSA complaint #614244 (ODI reference 10183297) concerns a 2005 FORD FREESTYLE and was filed on February 22, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 20, 2006. The vehicle had 19,892 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania 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 FREESTYLE 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 2005 FORD FREESTYLE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
IN SEPTEMBER OUR 2005 FORD FREESTYLE WENT IN FOR A ROUTINE STATE INSPECTION. IT HAD 19892 MILES ON IT AT THE TIME. WE WERE TOLD THE REAR BRAKE PADS WERE COMPLETELY WORN AND THE ROTORS WERE WARPED. BOTH NEEDED TO BE REPLACED TO PASS INSPECTION. ASSUMING THEY WERE UNDER WARRANTY, THE GARAGE CALLED THE LOCAL FORD DEALERSHIP AND THEY WERE INFORMED THE BRAKES ARE ONLY WARRANTED TO 1 YEAR, 18000 MILES. I WANTED A SECOND OPINION. THE SECOND DEALERSHIP SAID THE WARRANTY ON BRAKES ARE 1 YEAR, 12000 MILES. SINCE WE WERE NOT COVERED BY THE WARRANTY WE HAD TO PAY $385 TO HAVE THE REPAIRS DONE TO PASS INSPECTION. *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 614244 |
| ODI Number | 10183297 |
| Date Filed | February 22, 2007 |
| Failure Date | September 20, 2006 |
| VIN | 1FMDK05185G |
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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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