2015 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1202373
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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY filed July 27, 2015
NHTSA complaint #1202373 (ODI reference 10743735) concerns a 2015 FORD F-150 and was filed on July 27, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 5, 2015. The vehicle had 1,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Nebraska based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment adaptive/mobility, 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-150 cohort independently describe similar equipment adaptive/mobility 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 2015 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WHILE THE CRUISE IS SET AND TRAVELING ON THE INTERSTATE, IN THIS CASE 70MPH, WHEN I PASS AN 18 WHEELER THE ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL SENSES AN IMMINENT COLLISION WHILE PASSING THE 18 WHEELER IN THE LEFT TRAVEL LANE. THE ADAPTIVE CRUISE IMMEDIATELY ALERTS AND ENGAGES THE BRAKES. FORTUNATELY, THIS HAS NOT YET RESULTED IN A REAR END COLLISION IN MY CASE HOWEVER I'M SURE AT SOME POINT IT WILL WITH OWNERS OF THESE VEHICLES. THIS HAS HAPPENED TWICE SINCE I PURCHASED THE F150 IN JANUARY(2015) AND BOTH OCCURRENCES HAPPENED WHILE PASSING A TANKER TRUCK SPECIFICALLY AND WHILE IN THE LEFT LANE- TANKER TRUCK WAS IN THE RIGHT LANE TRAVELING AT A SLOWER SPEED PERHAPS AROUND 60-65MPH. THIS DEFECT TO ME APPEARS TO BE VERY DANGEROUS BECAUSE IF MY F150 ENGAGES THE BRAKES FOR NO REASON AND THERE WERE TO BE CARS BEHIND ME A REAR END ACCIDENT COULD LIKELY OCCUR ON THE INTERSTATE. FORD HAS BEEN VERY SLOW IN RESPONDING TO THIS SAFETY CONCERN AND HAS NOT CAME UP WITH A FIX FOR THIS ISSUE. MANY ON INTERNET
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1202373 |
| ODI Number | 10743735 |
| Date Filed | July 27, 2015 |
| Failure Date | January 5, 2015 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1EG9FF |
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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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