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2014 FORD EXPLORER — Complaint #2174958

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NHTSA Complaint about BACK OVER PREVENTION: WARNINGS filed February 9, 2026

NHTSA complaint #2174958 (ODI reference 11716705) concerns a 2014 FORD EXPLORER and was filed on February 9, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2025. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as back over prevention: warnings, 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 back over prevention: warnings 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.

Vehicle
2014 FORD EXPLORER
Component
BACK OVER PREVENTION: WARNINGS
State
New York

Complaint Description

MY VEHICLE HAS BEEN HAVING AT ISSUE WITH THE REVERSE CAMERA SINCE THE BEGINING OF LAST YEAR. IT STARTED AS BEING DISTORTED TO FULLY NOT TURNING ON AT ALL WHEN IN REVERSE. I NOTICED THERE IS A RECALL FOR THE SAME ISSUES IM HAVING WITH MY REVERSE CAMERA BUT IT BEGINS WITH MODEL YEAR 2015. MY VEHICLE IS A 2014 FORD EXPLORER. I HAD MANY INCIDENTS OF ALMOST HITTING PEDESTRIANS WHEN IM IN REVERSE TO MAKING INPACT WITH OTHER VEHICLES BEHIND ME. CAN THIS RECALL BE REVIEWED AND ADD ADDITIONAL MODEL YEARS AS THIS HAS BECOME A SAFETY ISSUE FOR ME AND MY FAMILY. THANK YOU.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2174958
ODI Number 11716705
Date Filed February 9, 2026
Failure Date January 1, 2025
VIN 1FM5K8D82EG

Similar BACK OVER PREVENTION: WARNINGS Complaints for 2014 FORD EXPLORER

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