2012 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1929549
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP:WHEEL SPEED SENSOR/TONE RING filed September 21, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1929549 (ODI reference 11545777) concerns a 2012 FORD F-150 and was filed on September 21, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 11, 2023. The vehicle had 149,960 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip:wheel speed sensor/tone ring, 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 service brakes, hydraulic:antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip:wheel speed sensor/tone ring 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 2012 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2012 Ford F-150. The contact stated while driving 60 MPH, the vehicle unintendedly downshifted to first gear and the vehicle slowed to 20 MPH. The vehicle was taken to the dealer to be diagnosed. The contact was informed that the wheel speed sensor had malfunctioned. The contact stated that there was a Customer Satisfaction Program and an Extended Warranty coverage for the failure; however, the VIN was not included. Additionally, the vehicle had exceeded the mileage limitation. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 149,960.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1929549 |
| ODI Number | 11545777 |
| Date Filed | September 21, 2023 |
| Failure Date | September 11, 2023 |
| VIN | 1FTFW1EF1CF |
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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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