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2018 FORD F-150 — Complaint #2115989

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION filed July 31, 2025

NHTSA complaint #2115989 (ODI reference 11677564) concerns a 2018 FORD F-150 and was filed on July 31, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 31, 2025. The vehicle had 87,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Oregon based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:automatic transmission, 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 power train:automatic transmission 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.

Vehicle
2018 FORD F-150
Component
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
State
Oregon
Mileage
87,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2018 Ford F-150. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed and accelerating, there was an abnormal sound coming from underneath the vehicle. There was no warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, where it was diagnosed that the transmission had failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and a case was filed. The contact was referred to the NHTSA Hotline for assistance. The failure mileage was 87,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2115989
ODI Number 11677564
Date Filed July 31, 2025
Failure Date July 31, 2025
VIN 1FTEX1E54JK

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.