2021 FORD MUSTANG — Complaint #1820810
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:BRAKE FLUID LOW WARNING:SWITCH/SENSOR/FLOAT filed June 22, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1820810 (ODI reference 11470394) concerns a 2021 FORD MUSTANG and was filed on June 22, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 22, 2022. The vehicle had 6,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:brake fluid low warning:switch/sensor/float, 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 MUSTANG cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:brake fluid low warning:switch/sensor/float 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 2021 FORD MUSTANG shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2021 Ford Mustang. The contact stated that the brake fluid low warning light failed to illuminate to alert him that the brake fluid level was low. The vehicle was taken to the dealer; however, the dealer was unable to correct the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 6,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1820810 |
| ODI Number | 11470394 |
| Date Filed | June 22, 2022 |
| Failure Date | June 22, 2022 |
| VIN | 1FATP8UH9M5 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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