2014 FORD FUSION — Complaint #1756969
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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS:MID/REAR ASSEMBLY filed July 12, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1756969 (ODI reference 11424449) concerns a 2014 FORD FUSION and was filed on July 12, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 11, 2021. The vehicle had 70,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats:mid/rear assembly, 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 seats:mid/rear assembly 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 FUSION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2014 Ford Fusion. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked and attempting to place the rear driverâs side and center seat in the upright position, the seats failed to move. The contact removed the bottom half of the seat bracket to get the seat in the upright position. The contact was however unable to reconnect the seat belt back in the correct position. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximate 70,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1756969 |
| ODI Number | 11424449 |
| Date Filed | July 12, 2021 |
| Failure Date | July 11, 2021 |
| VIN | 3FA6P0H79ER |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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