2003 FORD WINDSTAR — Complaint #666670
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:INDICATOR LIGHT filed April 21, 2008
NHTSA complaint #666670 (ODI reference 10225310) concerns a 2003 FORD WINDSTAR and was filed on April 21, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 10, 2008. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:indicator light, 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 WINDSTAR cohort independently describe similar parking brake:indicator light 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 2003 FORD WINDSTAR shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I WAS DRIVING ALONG AND SUDDENLY THE EMERGENCY BRAKE LIGHT, THE ABS LIGHT, THE TRACTION LIGHT, AND CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON. THE ODOMETER, AND DASHBOARD FUEL INFO SYSTEM DIDN'T WORK, THE SPEEDOMETER STOPPED WORKING. THE WORDS "CHECK TRANSMISSION" CAME ON THE INFO SCREEN. I TOOK THE CAR TO THREE DIFFERENT MECHANICS AND NO ONE CAN FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH MY VEHICLE. I WAS TOLD THAT THE CAR IS FINE AND THEY CAN'T FIND ANY REASON FOR THESE LIGHTS TO BE ON OR HOW TO GET THEM TO GO OFF. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 666670 |
| ODI Number | 10225310 |
| Date Filed | April 21, 2008 |
| Failure Date | April 10, 2008 |
| VIN | 2FMDA52453B |
Similar PARKING BRAKE:INDICATOR LIGHT Complaints for 2003 FORD WINDSTAR
BOTH THE ABS LIGHT AND THE EMERGENCY BRAKE LIGHT COME ON IN MY 2003 FORD WINDSTAR ONCE THE VEHICLE GETS WARMED UP. I HAVE CONDUCTED EXTENSIVE RESEARCH AFTER HAVING A MECHANIC GIVE ME THE CODE THAT THE
MY AUTOMOBILE KEEPS GETTING MULTIPLE EMERGENCY BRAKE AND ABS ERRORS. THE LIGHTS COME ON AND REMAINS ON UNTIL TURNED OFF. UPON RESEARCHING THIS PROBLEM IT APPEARS TO BE A WIDE SPREAD ISSUE WITH FORD WI
I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST AN INVESTIGATION ON MY 2003 FORD WINDSTAR VAN. MY ABS AND EMERGENCY BRAKE LIGHT RANDOMLY COME ON, FOR NO APPARENT REASON. I CAN SIT AND LET MY CAR IDLE, AND THE LIGHT WILL CO
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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