2010 FORD FUSION — Complaint #2120875
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NHTSA Complaint about WHEELS:LUGS/NUTS/BOLTS/STUDS filed August 15, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2120875 (ODI reference 11680875) concerns a 2010 FORD FUSION and was filed on August 15, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 15, 2025. The vehicle had 61,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as wheels:lugs/nuts/bolts/studs, 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 FUSION cohort independently describe similar wheels:lugs/nuts/bolts/studs 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 2010 FORD FUSION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2010 Ford Fusion. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked, the wheel studs on the front passengerâs wheel detached from the wheel. The dealer was not contacted. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and referred the contact to the NHTSA Hotline for further assistance. The failure mileage was approximately 61,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2120875 |
| ODI Number | 11680875 |
| Date Filed | August 15, 2025 |
| Failure Date | August 15, 2025 |
| VIN | 3FAHP0HA2AR |
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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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