2014 FORD FIESTA — Complaint #1589559
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE filed July 30, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1589559 (ODI reference 11240573) concerns a 2014 FORD FIESTA and was filed on July 30, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 11, 2017. The vehicle had 57,747 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Oklahoma based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:driveline, 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 FIESTA cohort independently describe similar power train:driveline 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 FIESTA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 FORD FIESTA. WHILE DRIVING VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE VEHICLE JERKED, LUNGED FORWARD, AND HESITATED WHEN THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED. THE CONTACT NOTICED AN ABNORMAL BURNING ODOR COMING FROM THE FRONT DRIVER AND PASSENGER SIDE. THE CONTACT HAD TO RELEASE THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL IN ORDER FOR THE VEHICLE TO RESUME NORMAL OPERATION. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO VANCE FORD LINCOLN (510 N MAIN ST, MIAMI, OK 74354, (800) 725-4431) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE DRIVELINE NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED, BUT THE FAILURE RECURRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 57,747.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1589559 |
| ODI Number | 11240573 |
| Date Filed | July 30, 2019 |
| Failure Date | July 11, 2017 |
| VIN | 3FADP4BJ5EM |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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