2019 FORD F-350 — Complaint #1958577
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NHTSA Complaint about Tether, Lower Anchor (on car seat or vehicle) filed January 16, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1958577 (ODI reference 11565796) concerns a 2019 FORD F-350 and was filed on January 16, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 16, 2024. The vehicle had 26,987 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Vermont based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as tether, lower anchor (on car seat or vehicle), 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-350 cohort independently describe similar tether, lower anchor (on car seat or vehicle) 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 2019 FORD F-350 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2019 Ford F-350. The contact stated while attaching a Graco Safety First with the latch system, the contact became aware that the vehicle was not equipped with the lower latch for the latch system. The contact had taken the vehicle to a local dealer and was advised that the latching system was not part of the vehicle design and was not offered on any similar model vehicles. The contact stated that the issue was a safety-related failure by the manufacturer. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was informed of the failure. The failure mileage was 26,987
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1958577 |
| ODI Number | 11565796 |
| Date Filed | January 16, 2024 |
| Failure Date | January 16, 2024 |
| VIN | 1FDRF3H66KE |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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