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1989 FORD F150 — Complaint #393028

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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:AUXILLARY TANK:SELECTOR DEVICES filed February 7, 2003

NHTSA complaint #393028 (ODI reference 10006746) concerns a 1989 FORD F150 and was filed on February 7, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 1, 2001. The vehicle had 10,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:storage:auxillary tank:selector devices, 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 F150 cohort independently describe similar fuel system, gasoline:storage:auxillary tank:selector devices 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 1989 FORD F150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1989 FORD F150
Component
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:AUXILLARY TANK:SELECTOR DEVICES
State
Florida
Mileage
10,000 mi

Complaint Description

THE FUEL TANK SELECTOR SWITCH WAS BURNING. PH

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 393028
ODI Number 10006746
Date Filed February 7, 2003
Failure Date February 1, 2001
VIN 1FTDF15NXKN

Similar FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:AUXILLARY TANK:SELECTOR DEVICES Complaints for 1989 FORD F150

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