2021 FORD EXPLORER — Complaint #1918496
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NHTSA Complaint about BACK OVER PREVENTION: WARNINGS filed August 13, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1918496 (ODI reference 11538179) concerns a 2021 FORD EXPLORER and was filed on August 13, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 29, 2023. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as back over prevention: warnings, 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 back over prevention: warnings 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 2021 FORD EXPLORER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Screen is blue by reverse
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1918496 |
| ODI Number | 11538179 |
| Date Filed | August 13, 2023 |
| Failure Date | June 29, 2023 |
| VIN | 1FM5K8GCXMG |
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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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