2005 FORD RANGER — Complaint #1558487
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS filed April 16, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558487 (ODI reference 11196769) concerns a 2005 FORD RANGER and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2019. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags, 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 RANGER cohort independently describe similar air bags 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 2005 FORD RANGER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* TAKATA RECALL. THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 FORD RANGER. THE CONTACT RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 17V788000 (AIR BAGS). THE CONTACT STATED THAT RIVERTOWN FORD (LOCATED AT 1680 WHITTLESEY RD, COLUMBUS, GA 31904, (706) 653-7420) EXCEEDED A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR THE RECALL REPAIR. THE PART WAS NOT AVAILABLE FOR THE REPAIR. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE ISSUE. THE CONTACT HAD NOT EXPERIENCED A FAILURE. PARTS DISTRIBUTION DISCONNECT.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558487 |
| ODI Number | 11196769 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2019 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 2019 |
| VIN | 1FTYR14U25P |
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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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