2013 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1557928
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 15, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1557928 (ODI reference 11196207) concerns a 2013 FORD F-150 and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 7, 2019. The vehicle had 154,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train, 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 power train 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 2013 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 FORD F-150. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 45 MPH, THE TACHOMETER WENT FROM 1200 RPMS TO 3500 RPMS. THE VEHICLE THEN DOWNSHIFTED TO 15 MPH. THERE WERE NO WARNING INDICATORS ILLUMINATED. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FAILURE OCCURRED INTERMITTENTLY FOR SEVEN MONTHS AND WORSENED OVER TIME. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO CLASSIC FORD/LINCOLN (8540 TYLER BLVD, MENTOR, OH 44060) WHERE IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE REMEDY WAS NOT AVAILABLE. THE DEALER INFORMED THE CONTACT TO CONTINUE DRIVING THE VEHICLE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND PROVIDED CASE NUMBER: CAS 17396519. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 154,500.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1557928 |
| ODI Number | 11196207 |
| Date Filed | April 15, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 7, 2019 |
| VIN | 1FTFW1ET7DK |
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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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