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2005 FORD MUSTANG — Complaint #634852

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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL filed August 17, 2007

NHTSA complaint #634852 (ODI reference 10199928) concerns a 2005 FORD MUSTANG and was filed on August 17, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 12, 2007. The vehicle had 44,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Jersey based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:conventional:mechanical, 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 MUSTANG cohort independently describe similar parking brake:conventional:mechanical 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 MUSTANG shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2005 FORD MUSTANG
Component
PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL
State
New Jersey
Mileage
44,000 mi

Complaint Description

OVER THE WINTER MY FORD 2005 MUSTANG V6 HAD AN ISSUE. THE EMERGENCY BRAKE WOULD FREEZE UP. YOU WOULD NOT BEAGLE TO MOVE THE CAR, UNTIL THE THING D-ICED. NOW MONTHS LATER, DUE TO THIS ISSUE HAPPENING IN THE WINTER, FINALLY THE E BRAKE GOT STUCK IN A POSITION WHERE THE CAR COULD DRIVE, BUT THE BRAKE PADS AND ROTORS WERE TORE UP IN THE PROCESS. THE DEALER IS GOING TO CHARGE ME $700 DOLLARS TO HAVE ALL THIS FIXED (NEW REAR BRAKES AND TO FIX THE CABLE) FORD PUT OUT AN INTERNAL MEMO ABOUT THIS ISSUE, WHY IS THERE NO RECALL ON IT. IF YOU SEARCH THE INTERNET THERE ARE MANY OTHERS WHO HAVE THIS ISSUE. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 634852
ODI Number 10199928
Date Filed August 17, 2007
Failure Date August 12, 2007
VIN 1ZVFT80N555

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