2017 FORD EXPEDITION — Complaint #1824165
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:MASTER CYLINDER filed July 7, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1824165 (ODI reference 11472827) concerns a 2017 FORD EXPEDITION and was filed on July 7, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 30, 2022. The vehicle had 95,000 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 service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:master cylinder, 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 EXPEDITION cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:master cylinder 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 EXPEDITION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2017 Ford Expedition. The contact stated while driving approximately 55 MPH, the brake warning light illuminated and an alert flashed that brake fluid needed to be added. The contact had to slow the vehicle due to traffic and had to depress the brake pedal nearly to the floorboard to stop the vehicle. The contact drove the vehicle to a dealer who diagnosed that the brake master cylinder needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact researched online and related the failure to NHTSA Campaign Number: 22V150000 (Service Brakes, Hydraulic). The manufacturer had been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 95,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1824165 |
| ODI Number | 11472827 |
| Date Filed | July 7, 2022 |
| Failure Date | June 30, 2022 |
| VIN | 1FMJU1KT8HE |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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