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2004 Emergency One Fire Truck Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Jul 11, 2008
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Jul 11, 2008

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2004 Emergency One Fire Truck. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Brakes
Filed Jul 11, 2008
Fire reported

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2004 EMERGENCY ONE FIRE TRUCK. THE CONTACT STATED THAT HE HAD TO CONSTANTLY REPLACE THE BRAKE PADS AND ROTORS TO PREVENT THE SERVICE BRAKE SYSTEM FROM FAILING. ON TWO OCCASIONS, A FIRE OCCURRED IN THE BRAKE SYSTEM. A MECHANIC INSPECTED THE BRAKES AND CONCLUDED THAT THE PADS WERE OVERHEATING, WHICH EVENTUALLY CAUSED THEM TO CRACK. THE MECHANIC ALSO STATED THAT THE WAY THE PADS WERE SEATED (METAL RUBBING AGAINST THE PADS AND ROTORS) CAUSED THEM TO WEAR PREMATURELY. THE CONTACT HAS COPIES OF THE REPAIR HISTORY FOR THE SERVICE BRAKE ASSEMBLY. THE MANUFACTURER WOULD NOT ASSIST NOR WILL THEY SEND A TECHNICIAN TO INSPECT THE VEHICLE. THE FIRE STATION IN WHICH HE IS EMPLOYED OWNS FOUR OF THE 2004 EMERGENCY ONE FIRE TRUCKS. ALL OF THEM ARE EXHIBITING THE SAME FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 10,000 AND CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 15,000.

NHTSA ID
10233978
Incident
Jul 11, 2005
Mileage
10,000 mi

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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