2013 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1558042
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 15, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558042 (ODI reference 11196447) concerns a 2013 FORD F-150 and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 12, 2019. The vehicle had 61,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania 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
WAS DRIVING MY ECO BOOST WHILE TOWING A 26 FOOT TRAVEL TRAILER AND WHILE IN 4TH GEAR TRUCK INSTANTLY AND WITHOUT WARNING SHIFTED INTO 1ST GEAR CAUSING RPMS TO BE DANGEROUSLY HIGH. THE TRUCK/TRAILER COMBO INSTANTLY SLOWED AND TRUCK WOULD NOT ,AUTOMATICALLY OR MANUALLY, SHIFT OUT OF FIRST GEAR. WE CONTINUED DRIVING IN FIRST GEAR FOR A SHORT DISTANCE WHEN WE SMELLED TRANSMISSION FLUID. WE STOPPED THE TRUCK TO INVESTIGATE AND FOUND OUR TRANSMISSION LINE HAD BUSTED WHICH LEAKED FLUID ALL OVER THE ROAD. WE HAD TRUCK TOWED TO LOCAL FORD DEALERSHIP WHO TOLD US THAT THE TRANSMISSION SHIFTING ISSUE IS RELATED TO A CURRENT RECALL BUT FORD HAS NOT ISSUED A FIX FOR THE RECALL. THE DEALER THEN CHARGED ME $568.21 TO FIX THE TRANSMISSION LINE STATING THAT FORD HAS NOT INCLUDED THE TRANSMISSION LINE FIX IN THEIR RELATED RECALL. FORD IS REFUSING TO PAY ASSOCIATED TOWING EXPENSES, AS WELL. I CALLED FORD CUSTOMER RELATIONS TO LODGE A COMPLAINT REGARDING THIS ISSUE AND WAS TOLD THE DEALER MAKES FINAL DECIS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558042 |
| ODI Number | 11196447 |
| Date Filed | April 15, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 12, 2019 |
| VIN | 1FTFW1ET1DF |
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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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