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2015 FORD FUSION — Complaint #1558696

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES filed April 17, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1558696 (ODI reference 11196909) concerns a 2015 FORD FUSION and was filed on April 17, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 10, 2019. The vehicle had 103,555 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, 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 service brakes 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 FUSION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2015 FORD FUSION
Component
SERVICE BRAKES
State
California
Mileage
103,555 mi

Complaint Description

RIGHT FRONT BRAKE HOSE BLOWN. ENGINE FLUID LEAK. COOLANT IS ABSORBED BY ENGINE TO COMBUSTION CHAMBER AND COME OUT AS A WHITE SMOKE THROUGH EXHAUST. ALL HAPPENED IN A CITY STREET NOT EVEN FREEWAY. NEW ENGINE NEEDED AND NEW BRAKE HOSES.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1558696
ODI Number 11196909
Date Filed April 17, 2019
Failure Date April 10, 2019
VIN 3FA6P0HD3FR

Similar SERVICE BRAKES Complaints for 2015 FORD FUSION

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