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2018 FORD TAURUS — Complaint #2131385

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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE filed September 17, 2025

NHTSA complaint #2131385 (ODI reference 11687964) concerns a 2018 FORD TAURUS and was filed on September 17, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 17, 2025. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure, 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 TAURUS cohort independently describe similar structure 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 TAURUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2018 FORD TAURUS
Component
STRUCTURE
State
North Carolina

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2018 Ford Taurus. The contact received notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 25V611000 (Structure); however, the part to do the recall repair was not yet available. The dealer was contacted, and the contact was informed that parts were not yet available. In addition, the contact was informed that the parts might not be available for several months. The contact stated that with the unrepaired recall, the vehicle could not be registered at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The manufacturer was contacted, but provided no assistance. The contact was informed that the parts were not yet available. The contact was advised to contact the NHTSA Hotline to report the failure. The contact had not experienced a failure.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2131385
ODI Number 11687964
Date Filed September 17, 2025
Failure Date September 17, 2025
VIN 1FAHP2H87JG

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