2000 FORD F-150 — Complaint #884706
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE:HYDRAULIC:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed October 11, 2011
NHTSA complaint #884706 (ODI reference 10429477) concerns a 2000 FORD F-150 and was filed on October 11, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 27, 2011. The vehicle had 200,947 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 parking brake:driveline:hydraulic:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings, 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 F-150 cohort independently describe similar parking brake:driveline:hydraulic:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings 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 2000 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WAS GOING TO FORD DEALER FOR GAS TANK STRAP RECALL DUE TO STRAPS THAT HAVE POOR CORROSION PROTECTION. AS I WAS ENROUTE TO DEALER I APPLIED MY BRAKES DUE TO A CAR RUNNING A STOP SIGN AND MY BRAKES GAVE WAY AND I JUST MISSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. I CHECKED MY BRAKE LINE WHERE THE LEAK WAS AND DUE TO VERY POOR RUST THE LINE BLOW OUT. I ASK THE DEALER WHEN PERFORMING THE RECALL REPAIR COULD HE FIX THE LINE AND WAS STATED A 600.00 CHARGE. WHILE AT THE DEALER I CALLED FORD VP OF CUSTOMER SERVICE FRED TONEY WHO THEN SENT ME TO MR. FEDDERS. I TALKED TO A PERSON FROM HIS OFFICE AND TOLD THEM THAT FORD HAS A BIG PROBLEM ON BRAKE LINES RUSTING AND BECAUSE OF THAT I JUST MISSED HAVING A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. I ASK FORD TO FIX THE LININGS AT NO CHARGE AND TAKE THE LINE FOR OBSERVATION. I WAS TOLD THAT SINCE THE TRUCK IS 10 YEARS OLD AND HAS 200,000MILES ON IT THEY WILL NOT DO ANYTHING. I STATED THAT FORD HAS NO PROBLEM REPAIRING THE GAS STRAPS OF A 10 YEAR OLD TRUCK. ANYWAY HAD MY TRUCK TOWED TO MY MECHA
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 884706 |
| ODI Number | 10429477 |
| Date Filed | October 11, 2011 |
| Failure Date | September 27, 2011 |
| VIN | 1FTRF17W3YN |
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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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