2015 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1557923
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES filed April 15, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1557923 (ODI reference 11196203) concerns a 2015 FORD F-150 and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 13, 2019. The vehicle had 61,690 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, 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 service brakes 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
MASTER CYLINDER LEAKING INTO BRAKE BOOSTER. ONLY WARNING IS LOW BRAKE FLUID LIGHT. KNOWN ISSUE ON 13, 14 ECOBOOST MODELS. JUST DRIVING DOWN THE INTERSTATE AND LOW BRAKE FLUID LEVEL WARNING CAME ON . PULLED OVER AND PUT MORE FLUID IN MASTER CYLINDER. BY THE TIME WE GOT TO THE END OF PARKING LOT NEEDED FLUID AGAIN. TOOK TO FORD DEALER WHERE THEY SAID NEEDED NEW MASTER CYLINDER AND BRAKE BOOSTER REPLACED. PARTS AND LABOR OVER $900. THIS SHOULD NOT BE A NORMAL FAILURE FOR A TRUCK THAT HAS LESS THAN 62000 MILES ON IT. THANKFULLY WE DID NOT HAVE A MORE CATASTROPHIC SITUATION.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1557923 |
| ODI Number | 11196203 |
| Date Filed | April 15, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 13, 2019 |
| VIN | 1FTF1EG6FFB |
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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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