2017 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1904058
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:REAR WINDOW WIPER/WASHER filed June 22, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1904058 (ODI reference 11528346) concerns a 2017 FORD F-150 and was filed on June 22, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 22, 2023. The report was geocoded to Idaho based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:rear window wiper/washer, 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:rear window wiper/washer 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.
Complaint Description
Rear window exploded sitting in my closed garage. Did a lot of research on it and apparently this has been happening to numerous people dating back to 2010 on all the f series picks. FORD refuses to issue a recall. CHILDREN CAN BE HURT BY THIS. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1904058 |
| ODI Number | 11528346 |
| Date Filed | June 22, 2023 |
| Failure Date | June 22, 2023 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1EPXHF |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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