2017 FORD F-150 — Complaint #2075548
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:INTERNAL:CLUTCHES/BANDS filed March 20, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2075548 (ODI reference 11649442) concerns a 2017 FORD F-150 and was filed on March 20, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 20, 2024. The vehicle had 148,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Missouri based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:automatic transmission:internal:clutches/bands, 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: 1, 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-150 cohort independently describe similar power train:automatic transmission:internal:clutches/bands 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-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2017 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the transmission was slipping and the vehicle jerked significantly, causing the contact to sustain back pain. The power train warning light and an unknown warning light were illuminated. The vehicle was taken to Geared Up Transmissions, where it was diagnosed and determined that the transmission had failed due to a transmission clutch failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact related the failure to an unknown recall. An unknown dealer was contacted and confirmed that the VIN was not under recall. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and transferred the contact to the NHTSA Hotline for assistance. The failure mileage was approximately 148,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2075548 |
| ODI Number | 11649442 |
| Date Filed | March 20, 2025 |
| Failure Date | March 20, 2024 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1EG6HK |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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