Owner-reported complaints naming the brake system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming service brakes, the antilock braking system, brake hoses, master cylinders or the parking brake. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 2007 Kenworth T2000 submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 10 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
TRUCK PULLED AWAY FROM A DOCK. LR BRAKE CHAMBER LOCKED UP AND SUPER SINGLE TIRE SLID AND THEN BLEW OUT. SERVICE TRUCK HAD TO COME AND BRAKE CHAMBER WAS REPLACED. THIS REPLACED BRAKE CHAMBER IS AVAILABLE AT OUR WAREHOUSE. UPDATE 10/01/08 *CW THE AXLE LOCKED UP. UPDATED 10/02/08.
BRAKE CHAMBER MOUNTS CRACKED. TOOK TO DEALER AND THEY REPLACED THREE BRAKE CHAMBERS. (ONE WAS REPLACED IN OCTOBER 2007).
FOUND FOUR BRAKE CHAMBERS BROKEN. TOOK TO DEALER AND THEY REPLACED ALL FOUR. *TR
LEFT FRONT DRIVE AXLE BRAKE CHAMBER BROKEN AT MOUNTING PLATE. TOOK TO DEALER AND THEY REPLACED BRAKE CHAMBER. *TR
BOTH FRONT DRIVE AXLE BRAKE CHAMBER MOUNTS CRACKED. TOOK TO DEALER AND THEY REPLACED BOTH BRAKE CHAMBERS. *TR
REAR COVER ON LEFT REAR BRAKE CHAMBER BROKEN. TOOK TO DEALER. THEY HAD TO USE TORCH TO REMOVE MOUNTING STUDS TO REMOVE. INSTALLED NEW BRAKE CHAMBER. *TR
BOTH RIGHT HAND DRIVE BRAKE CHAMBERS CRACKED. TOOK TO DEALER AND THEY REPLACED BOTH CHAMBERS. *TR
BRAKE CHAMBER FELL OFF THE AXLE- WAS HANGING BY HOSES WHEN SERVICE TRUCK ARRIVED TO REPAIR IT AT THE 247 MILE MARKER ON HWY I94 IN WI. REPLACED COMPLETE CHAMBER. *TR
WHILE DRIVING TO DEALER LEFT REAR WHEEL BRAKE ASSEMBLY ON FRONT DRIVE AXEL BROKE OFF OF AXEL. HAD TRUCK BEEN LOADED AND NOT BOB TAILING AT THE TIME THIS COULD HAVE CAUSED AND ACCIDENT AS THE FAILURE RENDERED THE BRAKE TOTALLY IN OPERATIVE. *TR
TWO BRAKE ASSEMBLIES BROKE OFF AXLES AND FAILED TO STOP VEHICLE IN SAFE STOPPING DISTANCE. THIS HAS HAPPENED TO 6 OTHER KNOWN INCIDENTS IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS. THE BRAKE ASSEMBLIES HAVE TO BE REWELDED TO THE AXLES OF THE VEHICLES BEFORE THEY CAN BE OPERATED AGAIN SAFELY. THIS DEFECT IS ON SEMI TRACTORS CARRYING 80,000 LBS GROSS WEIGHT AND THEY DO NOT HAVE SAFE STOPPING DISTANCE TO AVOID A CRASH WITH THIS DEFECT. *TR
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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