1994 KENWORTH T800 — Complaint #649055
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:CONTROLS filed December 8, 2007
NHTSA complaint #649055 (ODI reference 10211203) concerns a 1994 KENWORTH T800 and was filed on December 8, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 28, 2007. The vehicle had 756,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Arkansas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:controls, 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 KENWORTH T800 cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:controls 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 1994 KENWORTH T800 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
A NORMAL DAY AT THE FARM I START MY TRUCK TO LET IT WARM UP. I LEAVE THE TRUCK AND COME BACK SEVERAL MINUTES LATER RELEASING MY PARKING BRAKES AND THING SEEMS NORMAL. I PULL FORWARD TOWARD A CORAL AND HIT MY BRAKES AND THERE WAS NONE. AS WAS ABOUT TO HIT CORAL I FINALLY GOT PARKING BRAKES ON. COME TO FIND OUT MY BRAKE PEDAL WAS STUCK. AND MY NEIGHBORS KENWORH TRUCK BRAKE PEDAL ALSO HAD STUCK WE HAD TO CLEAN THE BUTTON IN THE FLOORBOARDS THAT THE PEDAL PUSHES THE AIR VALVES A VERY DANGEROUS PROBLEM LUCKY NO CRASHES. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 649055 |
| ODI Number | 10211203 |
| Date Filed | December 8, 2007 |
| Failure Date | November 28, 2007 |
| VIN | 1XKDDR9X8RJ |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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