2014 Ford Explorer - Complaint #2158643
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NHTSA Complaint about UNKNOWN OR OTHER filed December 18, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2158643 (ODI reference 11705908) concerns a 2014 Ford Explorer and was filed on December 18, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2023. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as unknown or other, 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 Explorer cohort independently describe similar unknown or other 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 2014 Ford Explorer shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Rear view camera either is dark or reverses view (left is right and right is left). The camera either doesn’t work, works correctly or provides a horizontally flipped image so the driver side and passenger side views are reversed (this is the most dangerous view and the view that happens most frequently). I recently noticed that there has been an official recall for the 2015 Explorer but not the 2014. I wanted to bring it to your attention that more years are affected and need attention. The dealer claims not to know the problem and wants hundreds of dollars to “diagnose”.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2158643 |
| ODI Number | 11705908 |
| Date Filed | December 18, 2025 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 2023 |
| VIN | 1FM5K8D88EG |
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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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