2013 FORD TAURUS — Complaint #1766526
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM filed September 3, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1766526 (ODI reference 11431625) concerns a 2013 FORD TAURUS and was filed on September 3, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 20, 2021. The report was geocoded to Missouri based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:electric power assist system, 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 TAURUS cohort independently describe similar steering:electric power assist system 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 TAURUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
We bought the car in August 2015 from a bank. After we got it home a "power steering assist fail" light came on. We took it to the local Ford dealer back then and since the light comes on randomly, they could not get a report to show. I told them that there was a loss of power steering assist recall in June of 2015, but since my VIN was not one of the recalls they refused to do recall work. The power steering assist continues to give us trouble and when I called Ford customer service last week, they said since my VIN was not on the recall list, I would have to pay for the $1800.00 for repairs myself. Last week the power assist failed while pulling into a parking spot and I almost hit another car because I could not turn my wheel. My transmission tech ran the vehicle system report yesterday 9-2-21 and we got the error, even though Ford said they could not see it. It is recall 15V340000. I assume that Ford failed to get our VIN in the recall list and we are just trying to get the manuf
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1766526 |
| ODI Number | 11431625 |
| Date Filed | September 3, 2021 |
| Failure Date | August 20, 2021 |
| VIN | 1FAHP2E85DG |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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