2016 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1918975
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY filed August 14, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1918975 (ODI reference 11538498) concerns a 2016 FORD F-150 and was filed on August 14, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 11, 2023. The vehicle had 113,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility, 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 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 F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2016 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the center sliding window detached. As a result, the window struck the passenger but there was no injury. The contact was concerned for the safety of passengers near the center window. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the adhesive had failed, and that the window needed to be replaced. The vehicle as not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 113,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1918975 |
| ODI Number | 11538498 |
| Date Filed | August 14, 2023 |
| Failure Date | August 11, 2023 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1CP5GK |
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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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