2023 FORD F-150 — Complaint #2111483
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INTEGRATED TRAILER BRAKE CONTROL filed July 18, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2111483 (ODI reference 11674479) concerns a 2023 FORD F-150 and was filed on July 18, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 12, 2025. The vehicle had 45,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Kentucky 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-150 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 2023 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2023 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving approximately 50 MPH and hauling a horse trailer with several horses inside, the automatic headlights activated, and the trailer brake erroneously activated, causing the vehicle to abruptly stop in the middle of the road. During the failure, no injuries were reported to the vehicle occupants or the horses inside the trailer. The cause of the failure was not yet determined. The manufacturer and local dealer were notified of the failure, but no assistance was offered. The failure mileage was 45,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2111483 |
| ODI Number | 11674479 |
| Date Filed | July 18, 2025 |
| Failure Date | July 12, 2025 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1EP3PK |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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