2013 FORD EDGE — Complaint #1853950
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DIFFERENTIAL PROPORTIONAL VALVE filed November 15, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1853950 (ODI reference 11493703) concerns a 2013 FORD EDGE and was filed on November 15, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 1, 2022. The vehicle had 116,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:differential proportional valve, 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 EDGE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:differential proportional valve 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 2013 FORD EDGE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2013 Ford Edge. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the brake pedal depressed the floorboard intermittently. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer; however, the mechanic was unable to duplicate the failure. The failure continued and the vehicle was taken back to the local dealer where it was diagnosed that the rear differential, the brake booster, and the brake master cylinder needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired; however, the failure persisted. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was approximately 116,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1853950 |
| ODI Number | 11493703 |
| Date Filed | November 15, 2022 |
| Failure Date | August 1, 2022 |
| VIN | 2FMDK4KC7DB |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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