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2016 FORD E-250 — Complaint #1814474

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT filed May 24, 2022

NHTSA complaint #1814474 (ODI reference 11465943) concerns a 2016 FORD E-250 and was filed on May 24, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 17, 2022. The vehicle had 87,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.

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-250 cohort independently describe similar suspension:front 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 E-250 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2016 FORD E-250
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT
State
Texas
Mileage
87,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2016 Ford E-250. The contact stated that while his wife was driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle experienced a death wobble. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who replaced the steering damper, drag link, connecting rod, and ball joint; however, the failure recurred. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 87,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1814474
ODI Number 11465943
Date Filed May 24, 2022
Failure Date May 17, 2022

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.