2013 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1704760
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DISC:ROTOR filed November 6, 2020
NHTSA complaint #1704760 (ODI reference 11373472) concerns a 2013 FORD F-150 and was filed on November 6, 2020. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 1, 2017. The vehicle had 84,000 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, air:disc:rotor, 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 service brakes, air:disc:rotor 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 2013 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 FORD F-150. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DEPRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL, THE FRONT OF THE VEHICLE SHOOK AND VIBRATED SEVERELY. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO INDICATED THAT THE DRIVER'S SIDE BRAKE ROTOR WAS CRACKED AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE ROTOR WAS REPLACED AND THE FAILURE WAS REMEDIED. THE LOCAL DEALER FRITTS FORD LOCATED AT 8000 AUTO DR, RIVERSIDE, CA 92504 AND THE MANUFACTURER WERE NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 84,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1704760 |
| ODI Number | 11373472 |
| Date Filed | November 6, 2020 |
| Failure Date | November 1, 2017 |
| VIN | 1FTFW1ET9DK |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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