2017 FORD F-350 — Complaint #2035311
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:OIL/LUBRICATION:SEALS/GASKETS filed October 24, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2035311 (ODI reference 11621822) concerns a 2017 FORD F-350 and was filed on October 24, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 23, 2024. The vehicle had 26,300 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Alaska based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine:oil/lubrication:seals/gaskets, 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 engine and engine cooling:engine:oil/lubrication:seals/gaskets 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-350 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2017 Ford F-350. The contact discovered that the vehicle was leaking oil from the upper oil pan. No warning lights were illuminated and the vehicle was drivable. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that the upper oil pan was indeed leaking, and advised the contact to take the vehicle to the dealer in order to replace the upper oil plan. The vehicle was not repaired. A dealer was contacted. The contact referenced NHTSA ID Number: 10177883, as possibly being related to the failure. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 26,300.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2035311 |
| ODI Number | 11621822 |
| Date Filed | October 24, 2024 |
| Failure Date | October 23, 2024 |
| VIN | 1FT8W3DT7HE |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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