2018 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1558640
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 17, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558640 (ODI reference 11196876) concerns a 2018 FORD F-150 and was filed on April 17, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 3, 2019. The vehicle had 2,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Virginia 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 2018 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WITH 2018 F-150 10 SPEED TRANSMISSION IS SHIFTING HARD AN DOWN SHIFTS HARD GETTING WHIPLASH. DOWNSTAIRS TOO HARD BEEN AT THE DEALERSHIP TODAY IS THE SECOND TIME THEY CONSTANTLY ACT LIKE THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE VEHICLE AV TO RESET IT ONCE BEFORE STILL HAVING MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH THAT NEW TRANSMISSION. SO BASICALLY IN INNER-CITY DRIVING IS SOMEBODY WAS TO JUMP IN FRONT OF THE VEHICLE WITH DOWNSHIFT QUICKLY GIVING DRIVER OR ANY PASSENGERS WHIPLASH STOP THE VEHICLE NOT A VERY SAFE OR PRACTICAL BUILD CAN CAUSE ACCIDENTS AND GIVE MAJOR PROBLEMS IF ANYBODY HAS BAD BACKS OR NECKS WAS NOT DISCLOSED AT TIME OF SALE OF A HARD SHIFTING TRANSMISSIONS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558640 |
| ODI Number | 11196876 |
| Date Filed | April 17, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 3, 2019 |
| VIN | 1FTEX1CP5JF |
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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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