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2016 FORD MUSTANG — Complaint #1829844

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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:APPLIANCE:AIR CONDITIONER filed July 31, 2022

NHTSA complaint #1829844 (ODI reference 11476782) concerns a 2016 FORD MUSTANG and was filed on July 31, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 26, 2022. The report was geocoded to Alabama based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:appliance:air conditioner, 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 equipment:appliance:air conditioner 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 MUSTANG shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2016 FORD MUSTANG
Component
EQUIPMENT:APPLIANCE:AIR CONDITIONER
State
Alabama

Complaint Description

The ac evaporator core keeps going out and it’s now out of warranty. This has happened on thousands of mustangs. There needs to be a recall to force Ford to fix this costly problem that in 100+ heat is a major safety concern.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1829844
ODI Number 11476782
Date Filed July 31, 2022
Failure Date June 26, 2022
VIN 1FA6P8TH3G5

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