2016 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1795604
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed February 17, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1795604 (ODI reference 11452542) concerns a 2016 FORD F-150 and was filed on February 17, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 4, 2022. The vehicle had 85,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:delivery:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings, 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:delivery:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings 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
The contact owns a 2016 Ford F-150. The contact stated that the vehicle was parked and idling, when the contact returned to turn off the vehicle, there was an abnormal gasoline odor surrounding the vehicle. The contact stated no warning light was illuminated. The contact had not taken the vehicle to the local dealer. The contact had an independent mechanic diagnose the vehicle and was advised that a gasoline feeding tube under the driverâs side seat located on the frame was too short for its connection to the fuel pump and to the engine. The independent mechanic informed the contact that the connection was under pressure and was leaking gasoline and could detach from the connector and spray gasoline onto the engine. The contact called a local dealer and provided the dealer with the part number for the hose (FL34-9J278-AE). The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer had not been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 85,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1795604 |
| ODI Number | 11452542 |
| Date Filed | February 17, 2022 |
| Failure Date | February 4, 2022 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1EG4GK |
Similar FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS Complaints for 2016 FORD F-150
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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