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.
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.
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