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2011 FORD FUSION — Complaint #1558580

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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING filed April 17, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1558580 (ODI reference 11196836) concerns a 2011 FORD FUSION and was filed on April 17, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 9, 2019. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering, 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 FUSION cohort independently describe similar steering 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 2011 FORD FUSION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2011 FORD FUSION
Component
STEERING
State
Virginia

Complaint Description

I HAD A RECALL ON MY CAR IN 2015, I ALREADY GOT THE WORK DONE IN 2014 . RECENTY THE PART DEFALT AGAIN I TOOK IT INTO FORD THEY ARE SAYING IT'S NOTHING THEY CAN DO BECAUSE IT'S HAS MORE THE 150,00/ MILES ON IT. WHEN I GOT THE POWER STEERING WORK DONE THE FRIST TIME IT ONLY HAD 84000 MILES. I HAVE CONTACTED CUSTOMER SERVICE AND THEY ARE SAYING IT'S NOTHING I CAN DO. I STILL MAKE PAYMENTS SO I AM STUCK AT THIS POINT NOT TO MENTION I JUST GOT NEW TIRES FOR 700.00. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THIS. IF YOU NEED FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT ME VIA EMAIL [XXX] INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). *TT

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1558580
ODI Number 11196836
Date Filed April 17, 2019
Failure Date April 9, 2019

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.