2019 FORD ECOSPORT — Complaint #2019501
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS: REAR/OTHER:BUCKLE ASSEMBLY filed August 26, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2019501 (ODI reference 11610834) concerns a 2019 FORD ECOSPORT and was filed on August 26, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 17, 2024. The vehicle had 76,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to West Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts: rear/other:buckle assembly, 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 ECOSPORT cohort independently describe similar seat belts: rear/other:buckle assembly 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 ECOSPORT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2019 Ford EcoSport. The contact stated that when the vehicle was parked, the rear passenger's seat belt was inoperable. The contact stated that the rear passenger's seat belt failed to lock as intended. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where the vehicle was diagnosed with a failed rear passenger's seat belt buckle. The contact was informed that the rear passenger's seat belt buckle needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure but provided no assistance. The contact was advised to contact the NHTSA Hotline to report the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 76,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2019501 |
| ODI Number | 11610834 |
| Date Filed | August 26, 2024 |
| Failure Date | August 17, 2024 |
| VIN | MAJ6S3JL2KC |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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