2019 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1611564
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:REARVIEW MIRRORS/DEVICES:INTERIOR filed October 12, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1611564 (ODI reference 11268060) concerns a 2019 FORD F-150 and was filed on October 12, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 12, 2019. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:rearview mirrors/devices:interior, 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 visibility:rearview mirrors/devices:interior 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 2019 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE REAR VIEW MIRROR IN MY VEHICLE DIRECTLY OBSTRUCTS THE LANES OF RIGHT HAND TRAFFIC WHEN AT A STOP. THIS IS PARTICULARLY AT AN INTERSECTION WHERE 4 LANES ARE USED EACH DIRECTION. I ALMOST HIT A CAR THIS MORNING AT A 4 WAY IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR MY WIFE NEXT TO ME. I REALIZED THAT FORD HAS MOVED THE REAR VIEW MIRROR TO ALMOST CENTER WINDSHIELD TO ACCOMMODATE SENSORS LOCATED IN THE UPPER WINDSHIELD AREA. I AM WHAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED AVERAGE HEIGHT (6 FEET). EVEN AFTER ADJUSTING THE MIRROR AS HIGH AS POSSIBLE, VISION IS OBSTRUCTED. I RECENTLY HAD A LEFT HAND CRASH IN MY 2016 F-150 WHERE CROSSING TRAFFIC WAS AT AN ANGLE AND NEVER SAW THE ONCOMING CAR. I BELIEVE NOW THIS SITUATION IS NO COINCIDENCE AS I ENCOUNTERED THE ISSUE WITH MY 2019 REPLACEMENT VEHICLE. I AM AN ENGINEER AND DEAL WITH ISSUES OF ERGONOMICS AND VISON IN MY INDUSTRY AND CAN SAY THAT THIS CERTAINLY NEEDS INVESTIGATION AS A CAUSE TO CRASHES. I WILL BE CONSULTING WITH MY FORD DEALERSHIP SOON TO SEE IF THIS SITUATION CAN BE
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1611564 |
| ODI Number | 11268060 |
| Date Filed | October 12, 2019 |
| Failure Date | October 12, 2019 |
| VIN | 1FTFX1E57KF |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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