2002 FORD WINDSTAR — Complaint #647133
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:INDICATOR LIGHT filed November 23, 2007
NHTSA complaint #647133 (ODI reference 10209720) concerns a 2002 FORD WINDSTAR and was filed on November 23, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 1, 2007. The vehicle had 105,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:indicator light, 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 WINDSTAR cohort independently describe similar parking brake:indicator light 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 2002 FORD WINDSTAR shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
MY AUTOMOBILE KEEPS GETTING MULTIPLE EMERGENCY BRAKE AND ABS ERRORS. THE LIGHTS COME ON MULTIPLE TIMES DAILY. UPON RESEARCHING THIS PROBLEM IT APPEARS TO BE A WIDE SPREAD ISSUE WITH FORD WINDSTARS 2001-2003. THE ISSUE APPEARS TO BE A FAULTY BRAKE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE ABS SYSTEM. BRAKE FLUID LEAKS FROM A FAULTY SENSOR INTO ELECTRONIC CONNECTORS CAUSING THE POTENTIAL FOR FIRES. THERE ARE DOCUMENTED CASES WHERE THIS FAILURE HAS CAUSED FIRES. *NOTE PLEASE REVIEW THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE HTTP://WWW.2CARPROS.COM/FORUM/8-VT49767.HTML?POSTDAYS=0&POSTORDER=ASC&START=140 PLEASE REVIEW THIS SAFETY DEFECT SOON! *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 647133 |
| ODI Number | 10209720 |
| Date Filed | November 23, 2007 |
| Failure Date | June 1, 2007 |
| VIN | 2FMZA51462B |
Similar PARKING BRAKE:INDICATOR LIGHT Complaints for 2002 FORD WINDSTAR
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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