2015 FORD EXPLORER — Complaint #1558441
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE filed April 16, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558441 (ODI reference 11196728) concerns a 2015 FORD EXPLORER and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 13, 2019. The vehicle had 40,000 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 engine, 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 EXPLORER cohort independently describe similar engine 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 EXPLORER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WHEN ACCELERATING IN MY VEHICLE FROM A STOPPED POSITION AND WHEN DRIVING ON THE EXPRESSWAY, THERE IS A CARBON MONOXIDE ODOR AND I GET LIGHT HEADED AND HAVE HEADACHES AFTERWARD. THIS HAS CONTINUED AFTER MY VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED BY A FORD DEALERSHIP DUE TO THE RECALL. THIS HAS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE AND AFTER THE REPAIR.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558441 |
| ODI Number | 11196728 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 13, 2019 |
| VIN | 1FM5K7D81FG |
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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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