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1999 FORD F-250 SD — Complaint #650982

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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL filed December 26, 2007

NHTSA complaint #650982 (ODI reference 10212863) concerns a 1999 FORD F-250 SD and was filed on December 26, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 12, 2007. The report was geocoded to Washington based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:conventional, 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 F-250 SD cohort independently describe similar parking brake:conventional 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 1999 FORD F-250 SD shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1999 FORD F-250 SD
Component
PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL
State
Washington

Complaint Description

TL*THE CONTACT'S CLIENT OWNS A 1999 FORD F-250 SD. THE CONTACT, WHO IS A MECHANIC, STATED THAT THE EMERGENCY BRAKE LEVER WOULD NOT ENGAGE. AS A RESULT, THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT BRAKE AT ALL. HE WAS INFORMED THAT THE VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER 02V068000 (PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL:LINKAGE AND CABLE), EVEN THOUGH THE SYMPTOMS WERE IDENTICAL. THE FAILURE MILEAGE AND PURCHASE DATE WERE UNKNOWN. THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 130,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 650982
ODI Number 10212863
Date Filed December 26, 2007
Failure Date December 12, 2007
VIN 1FTNX21F7XE

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