2008 FORD F-150 — Complaint #2156384
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:REARVIEW MIRRORS/DEVICES:EXTERIOR filed December 11, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2156384 (ODI reference 11704450) concerns a 2008 FORD F-150 and was filed on December 11, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 10, 2025. The report was geocoded to Minnesota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:rearview mirrors/devices:exterior, 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:rearview mirrors/devices:exterior 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 2008 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The mirrors are not convex, the do not meet safety standards for viewable angles. Impossible to use to back up.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2156384 |
| ODI Number | 11704450 |
| Date Filed | December 11, 2025 |
| Failure Date | December 10, 2025 |
| VIN | 1FTPW14V78F |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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