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2017 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1888212

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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:GLASS, SIDE/REAR filed April 17, 2023

NHTSA complaint #1888212 (ODI reference 11517387) concerns a 2017 FORD F-150 and was filed on April 17, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 14, 2023. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:glass, side/rear, 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 visibility:glass, side/rear 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 2017 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2017 FORD F-150
Component
VISIBILITY:GLASS, SIDE/REAR
State
Texas

Complaint Description

No warning back seat driver window exploded while we were driving 65mph. Middle lane hwy83 April 14 at 9 20 am. We had just turned Ac on when we heard what sounded like a gunshot. There were no bridges or trucks near .We noticed a softball hole in middle of window all the rest of window was still there. No glass inside the cab. Pulling over to side of highway we noticed glass in bed of truck. We contacted the dealer immediately who said no recall! Contact your insurance.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1888212
ODI Number 11517387
Date Filed April 17, 2023
Failure Date April 14, 2023
VIN 1FTEW1EF7HK

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