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2012 FORD EDGE — Complaint #1612148

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:MASTER CYLINDER filed October 15, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1612148 (ODI reference 11268472) concerns a 2012 FORD EDGE and was filed on October 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 11, 2019. The vehicle had 99,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to West Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:master cylinder, 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 EDGE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:master cylinder 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 2012 FORD EDGE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2012 FORD EDGE
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:MASTER CYLINDER
State
West Virginia
Mileage
99,000 mi

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 FORD EDGE. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 35 MPH AND APPROACHING A STOP, THE BRAKE PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED AND TRAVELED TO THE FLOORBOARD. AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS, THE VEHICLE WAS ABLE TO BE STOPPED. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FAILURE BEGAN AROUND JANUARY OF 2019 AND HAD WORSENED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO DETERMINED THAT THE MASTER CYLINDER NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED BY THE CONTACT. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO A DEALER FOR DIAGNOSTIC TESTING; HOWEVER, AN APPOINTMENT WAS SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 21, 2019. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 99,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1612148
ODI Number 11268472
Date Filed October 15, 2019
Failure Date October 11, 2019
VIN 2FMDK4JC3CB

Similar SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:MASTER CYLINDER Complaints for 2012 FORD EDGE

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