2017 FORD F-150 — Complaint #1948843
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:CRANK/CAMSHAFT POSITION SENSOR filed December 8, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1948843 (ODI reference 11559120) concerns a 2017 FORD F-150 and was filed on December 8, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 1, 2023. The vehicle had 96,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Arizona based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine:crank/camshaft position sensor, 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 engine and engine cooling:engine:crank/camshaft position sensor 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
The contact owns a 2017 Ford F-150. The contact stated while the vehicle was parked, the contact observed a rattling sound coming from the engine compartment. The contact stated that once the oil pressure had built up the sound coming from the engine compartment ceased. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the variable timing chain and four camshaft phasers needed to be replaced. The vehicle was currently being repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 96,500.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1948843 |
| ODI Number | 11559120 |
| Date Filed | December 8, 2023 |
| Failure Date | November 1, 2023 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1EG5HK |
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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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