2004 WORKHORSE W22 — Complaint #970545
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DISC:CALIPER filed March 26, 2013
NHTSA complaint #970545 (ODI reference 10504526) concerns a 2004 WORKHORSE W22 and was filed on March 26, 2013. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 28, 2006. The vehicle had 12,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:disc:caliper, 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, air:disc:caliper 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 GEORGI BOY CRUSE MASTER RV EQUIPPED WITH A 2004 WORKHORSE W22 CHASSIS. THE CONTACT WAS DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 55 MPH WHEN THE BRAKE PEDAL WAS ENGAGED AND THE VEHICLE FAILED TO DECELERATE. THE CONTACT WAS ABLE TO REDUCE SPEED AFTER APPLYING THE BRAKES REPEATEDLY AND TO A COMPLETE STOP. AFTER THIRTY MINUTES THE VEHICLE RESUMED NORMALLY. THE VEHICLE WAS PREVIOUSLY REPAIRED UNDER A NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 09V193000 (SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC). THE FAILURE RECENTLY RECURRED AND THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE PROBLEM. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 12,000...UPDATED 05/16/13 *BF THE CONSUMER STATED THE BREAKS AND ROTORS SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHANGED. THEY WERE WARPED FROM THE EXCESSIVE HEAT CAUSED BY CALIPERS HANGING UP. UPDATED 05/23/2013 *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 970545 |
| ODI Number | 10504526 |
| Date Filed | March 26, 2013 |
| Failure Date | September 28, 2006 |
| VIN | 5B4MP67G143 |
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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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