2016 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1770052
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM:THROTTLEBODY/MANIFOLD filed September 24, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1770052 (ODI reference 11434238) concerns a 2016 FORD F-150 and was filed on September 24, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 1, 2021. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:fuel injection system:throttlebody/manifold, 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 fuel system, gasoline:fuel injection system:throttlebody/manifold 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 2016 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
A stud on the driver's side exhaust manifold sheered off creating an exhaust leak and an associated noise, like a squeaky fan belt noise, from the leak. An exhaust leak of this nature could effect the emission controls of the vehicle creating additional pollution to the atmosphere, and endangering the occupants with Carbon Dioxide (CO) gas inside the truck's cabin. And, in states such as California, the vehicle could fail smog tests. There were no warning lights or messages from the system computer indicating there was an emission problem, yet, and the noise can be heard while accelerating at any speed. I drove with this problem for over 7,000 plus miles before contacting my dealer with problem, thinking it was only a belt. On August 30, 2021, I finally took it to my Ford dealer to diagnose the problem, and was quoted an estimate of over $2,100 to repair the exhaust leak. The truck was of course out of warranty and had 75,074 miles on it. I had to wait two weeks for the parts to
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1770052 |
| ODI Number | 11434238 |
| Date Filed | September 24, 2021 |
| Failure Date | May 1, 2021 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1CG5GK |
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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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