2003 WORKHORSE W20 — Complaint #667156
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC filed April 24, 2008
NHTSA complaint #667156 (ODI reference 10225639) concerns a 2003 WORKHORSE W20 and was filed on April 24, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 16, 2006. The vehicle had 27,684 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:disc, 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 WORKHORSE W20 cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:disc 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 WORKHORSE W20 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WE HAVE A 2003 MOTORHOME WITH A W20 WORKHORSE FRAME. I HAVE LOST THE HYDRAULIC BRAKES DUE TO THE FLUID BOILING TWICE DURING NORMAL DRIVING ON LEVEL ROADS (NO HILLS OR MOUNTAINS) BOTH TIMES THE HEAT DESTROYED THE ABS WHEEL SENSORS. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 667156 |
| ODI Number | 10225639 |
| Date Filed | April 24, 2008 |
| Failure Date | July 16, 2006 |
| VIN | 5B4MP67G633 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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