2012 FORD F-550 SD — Complaint #1061030
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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS filed April 30, 2014
NHTSA complaint #1061030 (ODI reference 10585720) concerns a 2012 FORD F-550 SD and was filed on April 30, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 14, 2012. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:other:labels, 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-550 SD cohort independently describe similar equipment:other:labels 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 2012 FORD F-550 SD shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
INCIDENT #1: IT WAS DETERMINED DURING THE ASSEMBLY PROCESS THE MANUFACTURER OF MY EXPEDITION VEHICLE/MOTOR HOME (MH) WAS NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMIN., DOT REGULATION UNDER 571.108 COVERING LAMPS, REFLECTIVE DEVICES, AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. SPECIFICALLY MY MH WAS MISSING TWO AMBER CLEARANCE LAMPS ON THE FRONT, AND TWO RED SIDE MARKER LAMPS ON THE REAR. AFTER MANUFACTURER WAS INFORMED OF THE VIOLATION THEY CORRECTED THE MISTAKE. INCIDENT #2: IT WAS DETERMINED 08/07/2012 DURING THE ASSEMBLY PROCESS THE MANUFACTURER OF MY MH WAS NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMIN., CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS TITLE 49, PART 571: 571.120 FOR MOTOR HOMES. THE COMBINED WEIGHT RATING OF THE TIRES ON THE REAR AXLE WAS 12790, AND THE COMBINED WEIGHT RATING OF THE RIMS WAS 13660. THE WEIGHT RATING OF THE REAR AXLE OF MY MH WAS 14706. THE COMBINED WEIGHT RATING OF THE REAR TIRES WAS 1916 POUND LESS THAN THE WEIGHT RATING OF THE AXLE-NOT LEGAL PER
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1061030 |
| ODI Number | 10585720 |
| Date Filed | April 30, 2014 |
| Failure Date | July 14, 2012 |
| VIN | 1FDUF5HT2CE |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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