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2018 FORD F-150 — Complaint #2126254

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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR filed September 2, 2025

NHTSA complaint #2126254 (ODI reference 11684497) concerns a 2018 FORD F-150 and was filed on September 2, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 15, 2025. The vehicle had 68,692 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:windshield wiper/washer:motor, 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 visibility:windshield wiper/washer:motor 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
VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR
State
Michigan
Mileage
68,692 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2018 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving 70 MPH in inclement weather, the windshield wipers were operating slower than normal before becoming inoperable. The vehicle was taken to a dealer, where it was diagnosed and determined that the wiper motor was intermittently inoperative. The wiper linkage was removed, and the dealer became aware that the passenger’s side wiper had seized, and the motor and wiper arm linkage needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 68,692.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2126254
ODI Number 11684497
Date Filed September 2, 2025
Failure Date August 15, 2025
VIN 1FTEW1EP5JF

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