2016 FORD EXPLORER — Complaint #1558377
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM filed April 16, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558377 (ODI reference 11196688) concerns a 2016 FORD EXPLORER and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 1, 2018. The vehicle had 77,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Alabama based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:exhaust system, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 EXPLORER cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:exhaust system 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 2016 FORD EXPLORER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 FORD EXPLORER. WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS PLACED INTO REVERSE, IT JERKED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO WOODY ANDERSON FORD (2500 JORDAN LN NW, HUNTSVILLE, AL 35810, (877) 315-0514) TO BE DIAGNOSED AND REPAIRED PER AN UNKNOWN RECALL REGARDING CARBON MONOXIDE. PRIOR TO TAKING THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER, THE CONTACT BECAME VERY SLEEPY WHILE DRIVING. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE VIN WAS NOT AVAILABLE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 77,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558377 |
| ODI Number | 11196688 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2019 |
| Failure Date | December 1, 2018 |
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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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