2011 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1879281
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed March 10, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1879281 (ODI reference 11511246) concerns a 2011 FORD F-150 and was filed on March 10, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 9, 2023. The vehicle had 112,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Mexico based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:delivery:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings, 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 fuel system, gasoline:delivery:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings 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 2011 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2011 Ford F -150. The contact stated that there was an abnormal odor of fuel detected. The contact had to keep the windows in the down position. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who informed him that the fuel line was rubbing underneath the vehicle and caused a puncture hole in the fuel line. The local dealer was not contacted. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and provided a case number. The failure mileage was approximately 112,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1879281 |
| ODI Number | 11511246 |
| Date Filed | March 10, 2023 |
| Failure Date | March 9, 2023 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1CM2BF |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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