2018 FORD EDGE — Complaint #2161652
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed December 30, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2161652 (ODI reference 11707863) concerns a 2018 FORD EDGE and was filed on December 30, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 24, 2025. The vehicle had 145,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings, 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 EDGE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings 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 EDGE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2018 Ford Edge. The contact stated that while his wife was driving at 20 MPH in a parking lot, the brakes became inoperable. The low brake fluid warning light illuminated after the failure. The driver was able to drive safely to her residence. The contact related the failure to NHTSA Campaign Number 25V544000 (Service Brakes, Hydraulic). The contact called the local dealer, who confirmed that the VIN was not included in the recall. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic, where it was diagnosed and determined that the front driver-side and passenger-side brake hoses needed to be replaced. The mechanic replaced the parts. The manufacturer was contacted and confirmed that the VIN was not included in a recall. The approximate failure mileage was 145,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2161652 |
| ODI Number | 11707863 |
| Date Filed | December 30, 2025 |
| Failure Date | December 24, 2025 |
| VIN | 2FMPK4K88JB |
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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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