2020 FORD ECOSPORT — Complaint #2108974
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM:MANIFOLD/HEADER/MUFFLER/TAIL PIPE filed July 11, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2108974 (ODI reference 11672737) concerns a 2020 FORD ECOSPORT and was filed on July 11, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 9, 2025. The vehicle had 27,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:exhaust system:manifold/header/muffler/tail pipe, 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 ECOSPORT cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:exhaust system:manifold/header/muffler/tail pipe 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 2020 FORD ECOSPORT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2020 Ford EcoSport. The contact stated that while in the process of performing the State inspection of the vehicle, the inspector informed the contact that the exhaust pipe was fractured. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, where it was diagnosed that the pipe that extended from the engine to the exhaust pipe needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired because the parts were on backorder. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 27,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2108974 |
| ODI Number | 11672737 |
| Date Filed | July 11, 2025 |
| Failure Date | July 9, 2025 |
| VIN | MAJ6S3FL7LC |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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