2004 WORKHORSE W22 — Complaint #703664
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS filed January 12, 2009
NHTSA complaint #703664 (ODI reference 10254786) concerns a 2004 WORKHORSE W22 and was filed on January 12, 2009. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 1, 2008. The vehicle had 26,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Jersey 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 WORKHORSE W22 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 2004 WORKHORSE W22 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2004 WINNEBAGO ADVENTURER WORKHORSE CHASSIS. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE CALIPERS SEIZED AND BURND THROUGH THE BRAKES WHILE DRIVING LONG DISTANCES. THE FAILURE WAS NOTICED WHILE DRIVING 50 MPH. HE FELT THAT THE RV WAS UNSAFE TO DRIVE BECAUSE THE BRAKES WERE CONSTANTLY MALFUNCTIONING WHILE DRIVING. THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 31,080 AND FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 26,000. UPDATED 02-23-09 *BF UPDATED 02/24/09. *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 703664 |
| ODI Number | 10254786 |
| Date Filed | January 12, 2009 |
| Failure Date | December 1, 2008 |
| VIN | 5B4MP67G843 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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