2008 FORD RANGER — Complaint #1764931
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS filed August 25, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1764931 (ODI reference 11430434) concerns a 2008 FORD RANGER and was filed on August 25, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 24, 2021. The vehicle had 80,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Kentucky based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:rear:springs, 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 RANGER cohort independently describe similar suspension:rear:springs 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 2008 FORD RANGER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2008 Ford Ranger. The contact stated that after lending the vehicle to a neighbor, the neighbor informed the contact that the vehicle was making an abnormal noise. Upon inspection, the contact became aware that the rear spring hangers had detached. The vehicle was not taken to an independent mechanic or dealer. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 80,000. Invalid VIN.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1764931 |
| ODI Number | 11430434 |
| Date Filed | August 25, 2021 |
| Failure Date | August 24, 2021 |
| VIN | 1FTZR45E08T |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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