2018 FORD F-150 — Complaint #2079701
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:CRANK/CAMSHAFT POSITION SENSOR filed April 2, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2079701 (ODI reference 11652386) concerns a 2018 FORD F-150 and was filed on April 2, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 19, 2025. The vehicle had 160,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine:crank/camshaft position sensor, 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-150 cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:engine:crank/camshaft position sensor 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 2018 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2018 Ford F-150. The contact stated that the check engine warning light had illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer to be diagnosed, and the contact was informed that the cam phasers were faulty and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact stated that the vehicle had previously been serviced for the same failure with the cam phasers under Customer Satisfaction Program: 21B10. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 160,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2079701 |
| ODI Number | 11652386 |
| Date Filed | April 2, 2025 |
| Failure Date | March 19, 2025 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1CG8JF |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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