2014 FORD FUSION — Complaint #1558667
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING filed April 17, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558667 (ODI reference 11196891) concerns a 2014 FORD FUSION and was filed on April 17, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 2, 2019. The vehicle had 216,022 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 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. 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 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 2014 FORD FUSION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 FORD FUSION. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE POWER STEERING WAS FAULTY. THE CONTACT LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE AND IT WAS DIFFICULT TO TURN THE STEERING WHEEL. IN ADDITION, THE POWER STEERING AND TRACTION CONTROL WARNING INDICATORS ILLUMINATED AND "ASSIST POWER STEERING" APPEARED ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO PARISH FORD (2900 RIVER RD W, GOOCHLAND, VA 23063, (804) 556-4444) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT A NEW STEERING COLUMN AND/OR POWER STEERING GEAR NEEDED TO BE INSTALLED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE DEALER WOULD NOT REPAIR THE VEHICLE BECAUSE THE VEHICLE EXCEEDED THE WARRANTY MILEAGE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER IN 2015 FOR REPAIRS AT 84,000 MILES. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE DEALER STARTED COUNTING AT 84,000 MILES AND NOT FROM WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS PURCHASED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 216,022.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558667 |
| ODI Number | 11196891 |
| Date Filed | April 17, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 2, 2019 |
| VIN | 3FAHP0JG2BR |
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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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