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2002 FORD WINDSTAR — Complaint #654923

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:BRAKE FLUID LOW WARNING: LAMP filed January 24, 2008

NHTSA complaint #654923 (ODI reference 10215864) concerns a 2002 FORD WINDSTAR and was filed on January 24, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 24, 2008. The vehicle had 47,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Alabama based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:brake fluid low warning: lamp, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.

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 service brakes, hydraulic:brake fluid low warning: lamp 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.

Vehicle
2002 FORD WINDSTAR
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:BRAKE FLUID LOW WARNING: LAMP
State
Alabama
Mileage
47,500 mi

Complaint Description

INTERMITTENT ABS AND BRAKE LIGHT ILLUMINATION. THIS HAPPENS DAILY. VEHICLE HAS BEEN INSPECTED BY CERTIFIED MECHANIC. NO CODES ARE FOUND. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 654923
ODI Number 10215864
Date Filed January 24, 2008
Failure Date January 24, 2008

Similar SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:BRAKE FLUID LOW WARNING: LAMP Complaints for 2002 FORD WINDSTAR

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