2019 FORD F-150 — Complaint #2178469
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NHTSA Complaint about UNKNOWN OR OTHER filed February 19, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2178469 (ODI reference 11719064) concerns a 2019 FORD F-150 and was filed on February 19, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 12, 2025. The report was geocoded to Arkansas 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 F-150 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 2019 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The tailgate latch actuator came open while I was driving home spilling all my tools out into the roadway including extension ladders that were folded down I had a bed cover on so I never seen or heard the tailgate there's no warning there's no lights there's no dinging and then don't come up on the camera or nothing like that I've contacted Ford dealership we have a case and police reports I've got it had a witness with me I'm having it inspected sometime soon I'm contacting the insurance agent now there was no warning labels whatsoever but over $10,000 worth of tools I had car batteries hand tools shovels tool boxes you name it come flying out this is the second time that this has happened but kk first time I caught it heard it I was this the second time I wasn't there was on the highway at night I came back luckily some kids had been cleaning some of it off they had took off most of my tools by then but I caught them they had the extension ladder and some other things thank God cuz
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2178469 |
| ODI Number | 11719064 |
| Date Filed | February 19, 2026 |
| Failure Date | December 12, 2025 |
| VIN | 1FTEW1C40KK |
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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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