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2021 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1865097

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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INTEGRATED TRAILER BRAKE CONTROL filed January 12, 2023

NHTSA complaint #1865097 (ODI reference 11501462) concerns a 2021 FORD F-150 and was filed on January 12, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 1, 2022. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system: integrated trailer brake control, 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 electrical system: integrated trailer brake control 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 2021 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2021 FORD F-150
Component
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INTEGRATED TRAILER BRAKE CONTROL
State
Pennsylvania

Complaint Description

Trailer brake system fault. This fault warning displays when there is a possible lack of trailer brakes. On this vehicle it is on every time the vehicle starts. It began after the recall for the trailer brake module update in June of 2022. It has been to the servicing dealership 4 times and has been there for the past 23 days without resolution. There are many other accounts of this situation on-line also with no resolution.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1865097
ODI Number 11501462
Date Filed January 12, 2023
Failure Date June 1, 2022
VIN 1FTFX1E5XMK

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