2005 FORD FREESTYLE — Complaint #663388
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS filed March 28, 2008
NHTSA complaint #663388 (ODI reference 10222559) concerns a 2005 FORD FREESTYLE and was filed on March 28, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 14, 2008. The vehicle had 21,400 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components, 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 FREESTYLE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components 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 2005 FORD FREESTYLE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
ON MY 2005 FORD FREESTYLE WITH 21,400 MILES THE REAR BRAKE PADS WERE WORN WITH LESS THAN 3 MM OF PAD REMAINING. AT 6 DAYS PAST MY 3 YR / 36 K MI. WARRANTY, FORD CUST SERVICE AND FORD CORPORATE SAID THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO TO HELP ME. THEY DID ADMIT THAT THEY EXTENDED THE REAR BRAKE WARRANTY TO 3 YR/ 36 K MI - HOWEVER I WAS PAST THE 3 YR DATE (EVEN IF BY 6 DAYS) -- THANKFULLY MY DEALER CONTACTED THEIR FORD REP AND HE AUTHORIZED THE ENTIRE REAR BRAKES TO BE REPLACED -- MY COPAY WAS $119.68 VS $475.00. I GRILLED THEM AS TO WHAT ALL WAS REPLACED AND THEY SAID THE PADS, ROTORS, AND CALIPER MOUNTING PLATES AND BRACKETS AND BOLTS ETC. THEY SAID THEY REAR BRAKE ISSUES THAT MOST EVERYBODY IS HAVING IS DUE TO THE WRONG CALIPER MOUNTING HARDWARE USED. THIS CAUSED THE CALIPERS TO BE ALWAYS MISS- ALIGNED AND EXCESSIVE PAD AND ROTOR WEAR. SIMPLY REPLACING PADS AND ROTORS WILL NOT FIX THE ACTUAL CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM (THE MIS-ALIGNED CALIPERS) HOPEFULLY THIS MAY HELP SOMEONE WHO IS REPLACI
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 663388 |
| ODI Number | 10222559 |
| Date Filed | March 28, 2008 |
| Failure Date | March 14, 2008 |
| VIN | 1FMZK01175G |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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