2015 FORD FUSION — Complaint #1832223
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL filed August 9, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1832223 (ODI reference 11478464) concerns a 2015 FORD FUSION and was filed on August 9, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 4, 2022. The vehicle had 80,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:conventional, 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 FUSION cohort independently describe similar parking brake:conventional 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 2015 FORD FUSION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 Ford Fusion. The contact while attempting to came to a complete , the contact stated felt a Boeing feeling coming for the brake panel before coming to a complete stop. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where the failure was not able to be determined. On a separate occasion, the contact stated that while driving 30 MPH and her child was saying his seat beat in the rear passenger side was tight on him, The contact pulled over and pulled and attempting to pull the seat beat loosen the seat belt but it would not loosen up. The contact shut off the vehicle so the seat beat to loosen but it still would not loosen. The contact had to cut the seat beat to unstrap her child. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and they stated that there were no recalls on the rear seat belt. The manufacturer was not notified of the failures. The failure mileage was approx. 80,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1832223 |
| ODI Number | 11478464 |
| Date Filed | August 9, 2022 |
| Failure Date | July 4, 2022 |
| VIN | 3FA6P0H77FR |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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