2017 FORD EDGE — Complaint #1965739
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed February 8, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1965739 (ODI reference 11570748) concerns a 2017 FORD EDGE and was filed on February 8, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2023. The vehicle had 34,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings, 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 EDGE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings 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 EDGE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2017 Ford Edge. The contact stated while driving 20â30 MPH, the brake pedal was depressed and went to the floorboard. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, where it was diagnosed that the brake line on the driver's side needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired, but the failure recurred. While driving at an unknown speed, the brake pedal was depressed and went to the floorboard. The vehicle was taken to the same local dealer, where it was diagnosed that the brake line had fractured on the passenger's side. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was approximately 34,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1965739 |
| ODI Number | 11570748 |
| Date Filed | February 8, 2024 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 2023 |
| VIN | 2FMPK4J81HB |
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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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