2005 BUICK CENTURY — Complaint #637448
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE:HYDRAULIC filed September 6, 2007
NHTSA complaint #637448 (ODI reference 10202054) concerns a 2005 BUICK CENTURY and was filed on September 6, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 1, 2006. The vehicle had 34,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas 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: 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 BUICK CENTURY 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 BUICK CENTURY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
EMERGENCY BRAKE WILL NOT ENGAGE. VEHICLE ROLLS FORWARD AFTER THE BRAKE HAS BEEN ENGAGED WHEN PARKING ON A HILL. VEHICLE WAS TAKEN IN TO GET REPAIRED, THE DRUMS WERE TIGHTENED AND CAR STOPPED ROLLING FORWARD. 6 MONTHS LATER THE CAR IS ROLLING AGAIN WHEN PARKED ON A HILL.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 637448 |
| ODI Number | 10202054 |
| Date Filed | September 6, 2007 |
| Failure Date | August 1, 2006 |
| VIN | 2G4WS52JX51 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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