2014 FORD F-250 SD — Complaint #1258359
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:DIESEL filed February 4, 2016
NHTSA complaint #1258359 (ODI reference 10701593) concerns a 2014 FORD F-250 SD and was filed on February 4, 2016. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 1, 2016. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine:diesel, 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-250 SD cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:engine:diesel 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 2014 FORD F-250 SD shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
LETTER FROM SENATOR BURR ON BEHALF OF CONSTITUENT RE 2014 FORD F250 FUEL SYSTEM. *SMD THE CONSUMER STATED HE DROPPED THE VEHICLE OFF AT THE DEALER ON JANUARY 26, 2015, WITH A LOW ENGINE LIGHT, WATER IN THE FUEL SEPARATOR AND A LEAKING RADIATOR. WHEN THE CONSUMER PICKED THE VEHICLE UP ON FEBRUARY 3, 2015, THE DEALER STATED THE REPLACED THE RADIATOR. WHILE DRIVING ON FEBRUARY 7, 2015, THE VEHICLE WENT INTO REDUCED POWER MODE AND THE REDUCED POWER LIGHT ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE DEALER. AN INSPECTION REVEALED THE ENTIRE FUEL SYSTEM NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. ACCORDING TO THE DEALER, WATER IN THE FUEL SENSOR WAS UNPLUGGED. THE CONSUMER STATED THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY THE FUEL SEPARATOR LIGHT WAS ON, WHEN HE PICKED UP THE VEHICLE.*JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1258359 |
| ODI Number | 10701593 |
| Date Filed | February 4, 2016 |
| Failure Date | February 1, 2016 |
| VIN | 1FT7W2BT2EE |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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