2016 FORD MUSTANG — Complaint #1850473
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:AUXILLARY TANK filed October 28, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1850473 (ODI reference 11491316) concerns a 2016 FORD MUSTANG and was filed on October 28, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 4, 2022. The vehicle had 31,115 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:storage:auxillary tank, 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 fuel system, gasoline:storage:auxillary tank 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.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2016 Ford Mustang. The contact stated that after refueling the vehicle, there was an abnormally strong gasoline odor inside the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic and the contact was informed that the fuel tank needed to be replaced because the cap on the fuel tank was fractured. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and stated there was no recall for that failure. The contact was referred to the NHTSA Hotline to file a complaint. The failure mileage was 31,115. The consumer stated the vent nipple on the top of the gas tank failed.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1850473 |
| ODI Number | 11491316 |
| Date Filed | October 28, 2022 |
| Failure Date | October 4, 2022 |
| VIN | 1FATP8FFXG5 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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