2020 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1847146
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR filed October 12, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1847146 (ODI reference 11489013) concerns a 2020 FORD F-150 and was filed on October 12, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 12, 2022. The report was geocoded to South Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:windshield wiper/washer:motor, 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 F-150 cohort independently describe similar visibility:windshield wiper/washer:motor 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 2020 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Wiper motor is non operational. It has been verified by dealer part is non operational. Non operational wipers put myself and others at risk if there would be visual obscurities that would need to be removed during vehicle operation. The only sign was a loud grinding noise for a few wipes prior to operation ceasing.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1847146 |
| ODI Number | 11489013 |
| Date Filed | October 12, 2022 |
| Failure Date | September 12, 2022 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1E46LF |
Similar VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR Complaints for 2020 FORD F-150
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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