2022 FORD F-450 SD — Complaint #2037247
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY:TAILGATE filed November 1, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2037247 (ODI reference 11623119) concerns a 2022 FORD F-450 SD and was filed on November 1, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 30, 2024. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body:tailgate, 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-450 SD cohort independently describe similar structure:body:tailgate 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 2022 FORD F-450 SD shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The tailgate has opened randomly on about 4 or 5 occasions most recently the tailgate opened making a right turn while the horse trailer was connected to it and damaged the tailgate. It seems to open on right turns or when washed or been raining. The key is kept in the console and i always apply the parking brake. It is very random. There was a recall/ owner satisfaction program 21m01 but this truck is out of the production date and was advised this was fixed in production so either the repair the "fix" did not work or maybe mine got old stock. the truck has been out of service for this for over 6 weeks and is still at the dealer. two engineers have looked at it and no answers as of today 11-1-2024. We have another 2022 f350 with different production date and that one has open 21m01 on it which was allegedly fixed.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2037247 |
| ODI Number | 11623119 |
| Date Filed | November 1, 2024 |
| Failure Date | September 30, 2024 |
| VIN | 1FT8W4DT3NE |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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