2005 FORD MUSTANG — Complaint #1293622
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY:PEDAL/HAND LEVER(MOTORCYCLE) filed June 28, 2016
NHTSA complaint #1293622 (ODI reference 10881283) concerns a 2005 FORD MUSTANG and was filed on June 28, 2016. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 15, 2016. The vehicle had 190,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:clutch assembly:pedal/hand lever(motorcycle), 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 MUSTANG cohort independently describe similar power train:clutch assembly:pedal/hand lever(motorcycle) 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 2005 FORD MUSTANG shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 FORD MUSTANG. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 25 MPH AND ATTEMPTING TO SWITCH GEARS, THE CLUTCH PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED AND A CRUNCH SOUND WAS HEARD. THE CLUTCH PEDAL TRAVELED ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOORBOARD. THE CONTACT HAD TO MANEUVER THE VEHICLE TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. THE VEHICLE WAS SWITCHED TO THE NEUTRAL POSITION AND CAME TO A COMPLETE STOP. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE CONTACT'S RESIDENCE. THE VEHICLE WAS INSPECTED AND A PIECE OF PLASTIC WAS FOUND FRACTURED INTO TWO PARTS ON THE FLOOR OF THE VEHICLE UNDER THE CLUTCH PEDAL. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO A DEALER OR INDEPENDENT MECHANIC FOR DIAGNOSTIC TESTING. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 190,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1293622 |
| ODI Number | 10881283 |
| Date Filed | June 28, 2016 |
| Failure Date | May 15, 2016 |
| VIN | 1ZVFT80N355 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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