2016 FORD FUSION — Complaint #1898636
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NHTSA Complaint about LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:TRUNK LID:LATCH filed May 31, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1898636 (ODI reference 11524637) concerns a 2016 FORD FUSION and was filed on May 31, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2022. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as latches/locks/linkages:trunk lid:latch, 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 FUSION cohort independently describe similar latches/locks/linkages:trunk lid:latch 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 2016 FORD FUSION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE TRUNK ON THE FUSION RANDOMLY OPENS ON IT'S OWN, THE KEY FOB CAN BE HANGING INSIDE THE HOUSE, IT OPENS WHEN IT'S SUNNY, CLOUDY, DARK, WHEN THE CAR IS PARKED OR WHEN I AM DRIVING THE CAR, WHICH IS A SAFETY HAZARD AS IT CAN BLOCK MY VISION BEHIND THE CAR. IT HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR OVER A YEAR NOW. NO WARNING LIGHTS ALERT OF THE SOON TO POP OPEN TRUNK. LOOKED FOR SOLUTIONS AND NONE ARE AVAILABLE, MANY EXPERIENCE SAME ISSUE AND HAVE GONE TO DEALERSHIP AND THEY AREN'T ABLE TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1898636 |
| ODI Number | 11524637 |
| Date Filed | May 31, 2023 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 2022 |
| VIN | 3FA6P0HD6GR |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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