2022 FORD E-350 — Complaint #1784898
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:PUMP filed December 27, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1784898 (ODI reference 11445045) concerns a 2022 FORD E-350 and was filed on December 27, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 20, 2021. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:hydraulic power assist:pump, 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 E-350 cohort independently describe similar steering:hydraulic power assist:pump 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 2022 FORD E-350 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Without warning my brakes and steering failed on a Freedom Elite RV on a Ford Motor chassis. The vehicle only had 2396 miles on it at the time of occurrence. It turned out to be a pressure hose that broke. Luckily I was in a residential neighborhood with no traffic and driving very slowly when it happened. I shudder to think what would have happened on a hill or in traffic.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1784898 |
| ODI Number | 11445045 |
| Date Filed | December 27, 2021 |
| Failure Date | November 20, 2021 |
| VIN | 1FDWE3FN7ND |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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