2024 FORD F-350 SD — Complaint #2069438
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INTEGRATED TRAILER BRAKE CONTROL filed February 27, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2069438 (ODI reference 11645233) concerns a 2024 FORD F-350 SD and was filed on February 27, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 11, 2025. The report was geocoded to Colorado based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system: integrated trailer brake control, 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 SD cohort independently describe similar electrical system: integrated trailer brake control 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 2024 FORD F-350 SD shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
vehicle dash goes blank when a trailer is hooked up to the truck. This leaves the driver with no information on the engine. This is a serious safety issue becuse the driver has no information that could protect the vehicle from having serious engine problems and possibly catching on fire.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2069438 |
| ODI Number | 11645233 |
| Date Filed | February 27, 2025 |
| Failure Date | February 11, 2025 |
| VIN | 1FT8W3BM1RE |
Similar ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INTEGRATED TRAILER BRAKE CONTROL Complaints for 2024 FORD F-350 SD
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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