2004 FORD F-350 — Complaint #1406314
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY filed September 7, 2017
NHTSA complaint #1406314 (ODI reference 11022126) concerns a 2004 FORD F-350 and was filed on September 7, 2017. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 31, 2017. The vehicle had 82,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, diesel:storage:tank assembly, 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-350 cohort independently describe similar fuel system, diesel:storage:tank assembly 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 2004 FORD F-350 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2004 FORD F-350. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FUEL TANK STRAP WAS SEVERELY CORRODED AND THE FUEL TANK DETACHED FROM THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME THE FAILURE OCCURRED. AN UNKNOWN FORD DEALER WAS CONTACTED AND REFERRED THE CONTACT TO FORD USA. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND INFORMED THE CONTACT THAT THERE WAS NO RECALL AND HE WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE REPAIR COST. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 82,000. UPDATED 11/02/17*LJ *TT
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1406314 |
| ODI Number | 11022126 |
| Date Filed | September 7, 2017 |
| Failure Date | August 31, 2017 |
| VIN | 1FTSF31P54E |
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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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