2017 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1775529
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:12V/24V/48V BATTERY:CABLES filed October 26, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1775529 (ODI reference 11438262) concerns a 2017 FORD F-150 and was filed on October 26, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 12, 2021. The vehicle had 55,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:12v/24v/48v battery:cables, 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 electrical system:12v/24v/48v battery:cables 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 2017 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2017 Ford F-150. The contact stated that the vehicle would hesitate upon startup without warning. The contact had initially taken the vehicle to an independent mechanic where the engine shut off while performing a test on the battery. The mechanic discovered that the negative lead cable had become defective. The mechanic performed a temporary repair and instructed him to take the vehicle to the nearest dealer for repair. The contact took the vehicle to a dealer where it remained in their possession and was not yet repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and informed him that there were no recalls on the vehicle. The failure mileage was approximately 55,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1775529 |
| ODI Number | 11438262 |
| Date Filed | October 26, 2021 |
| Failure Date | October 12, 2021 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1EFXHF |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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