2005 FORD F-150 — Complaint #666826
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL:LINKAGE AND CABLE filed April 22, 2008
NHTSA complaint #666826 (ODI reference 10225409) concerns a 2005 FORD F-150 and was filed on April 22, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 20, 2008. The vehicle had 37,930 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Kentucky based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:conventional:mechanical:linkage and cable, 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 F-150 cohort independently describe similar parking brake:conventional:mechanical:linkage and cable 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 F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 FORD F-150. WHILE DRIVING 35 MPH, THE REAR BRAKES ON THE DRIVER SIDE LOCKED, CAUSING THE CONTACT TO LOSE CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE. THERE WAS NO CRASH. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE PIVOT LEVER (EMERGENCY BRAKE CABLE) WAS RUSTED. THE VIN WAS UNKNOWN. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 37,930 AND CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 37,960.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 666826 |
| ODI Number | 10225409 |
| Date Filed | April 22, 2008 |
| Failure Date | April 20, 2008 |
Similar PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL:LINKAGE AND CABLE Complaints for 2005 FORD F-150
ON 3 OCCASIONS THE REAR PARKING BRAKE HAS HUNG UP AND CAUSED EXCESSIVE CHATTERING AND SHUDDERING AT SPEEDS OVER 10MPH. CAUSED THE PASSENGER REAR BRAKE ROTOR AND ASSEMBLY TO BE SO HOT THAT SMOKE WAS E
PURCHASED TRUCK NEW. HAD HIGHWAY SPEED SHUDDERS AND VIBRATION. DEALER SAID THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM AND IT WOULD GO AWAY BY ITS SELF. ON THE THIRD VISIT, THEY SAID THAT THEY FIXED IT AND WE LEFT. IMME
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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