2020 FORD EXPLORER — Complaint #1872335
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ADAS:HUD:CAMERA/SENSOR filed February 10, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1872335 (ODI reference 11506549) concerns a 2020 FORD EXPLORER and was filed on February 10, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 9, 2023. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:adas:hud:camera/sensor, 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 EXPLORER cohort independently describe similar electrical system:adas:hud:camera/sensor 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 EXPLORER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Front camera is cloudy. We are unable to see what is in front of the vehicle when pulling in garage and parking spots. High probability to injure or kill our dog, small children, or cause damage to other vehicles when attempting to use the front camera.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1872335 |
| ODI Number | 11506549 |
| Date Filed | February 10, 2023 |
| Failure Date | February 9, 2023 |
| VIN | 1FM5K8GC9LG |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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