Conventional Parking Brake Problems of Ford F-350

Parking brake does not hold vehicle.

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I purchased a 1999 F-350 super duty dually. From records from the pervious owners problems and the problems I have had with this truck, I can not belive service problems I have had. A couple of months ago the parking brake blew when I was on almost level ground and need least to say the truck rolled and crashed, lucky not one was hurt. But it did quit a bit of damage to the truck and my trailor. Now I know this is a problem on these Fords but not yet on my perticulare truck. Also in the last three months I have put in a new clutch witch is expected. And have had close to $ 3,000 in brake repairs????? that was not!!!drums cracking,hubs exploading witch I understand in a problem too but not on my truck yet?????? please have some one contact me I need some guidence, information, help I have had no help from Ford.

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The parking brake will not hold well on an incline. This is especially noticed in reverse, as on a boat ramp with a boat that I am trying to launch. I can set the brake as hard as I can and the truck will still roll back against the parking pall in the automatic transmission. It becomes very difficult to then shift the transmission into gear. The dealer has looked at it twice and stated that they don't see a problem but they cannot duplicate the conditions.

When transmission was in park with emergency parking brake on, while loading vehicle, it rolled forward. Emergency brake did not hold vehicle, it stopped in a ditch.

The parking brake will not hold the vehicle at its gvwr on an incline.

On 1/28/2000, the operator of this vehicle parked it outside a business and put the truck in low gear, applied the emergency brake, turned the ignition off and exited and locked the vehicle. It was parked on a small downward slope and the vehicle began to roll and crossed 2 lanes of traffic, made a sharp left hand turned, looped around and ran through a wall of a business. The owner of this business was present and witnessed the incident and when our driver came out of the building he was in, the property owner and our driver and another witness walked to the truck and watched while our driver unlocked the vehicle at which time it began to roll backwards. Four people witnessed that the truck was turned off and also witnessed the truck being unlocked by our operator and verified the truck was in low gear and that the emergency brake was applied. We would like to know if other similar problems have been reported as we have 2 additional f350's (a 1999 and another 2000) in which case the operators have reported similar braking problems although accidents haven't occured in the other two. I will also report those separately as complaints. Could you estimate a time frame for investigating this complaint? thank you, tammy giles/office manager.

Parking brake when applied does not work. Vehicle will roll if not in gear when parking brake is applied.

Vehicle has been at dealer 7 times for brake problems. When applying brakes there was a grinding sound,like metal to metal. Also, extended braking distance. Dealer determined that emergency brake was not releasing properly, causing damage to brake drums. Drums have been replaced twice thus far. Dealer cannot remedy problem with emergency brake.

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While the vehicle was parked on an incline with the parking brake on, the vehicle was on, the parking brake released causing the vehicle to roll. The manufacturer has been notified.

Parking brake is ineffective. When applied on an incline vehicle still rolls. Ford has been contacted.

Emergency parking brake failure: parked truck on 2% incline, put in neutral(5 speed manual), and set parking brake. 5 minutes later truck began to roll forward and hit a telephone pole causing extensive damage.

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