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1997 FORD F-150 — Complaint #410309

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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY filed June 2, 2003

NHTSA complaint #410309 (ODI reference 10022022) concerns a 1997 FORD F-150 and was filed on June 2, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 30, 2003. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, other:storage:tank assembly, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.

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 fuel system, other:storage:tank assembly 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 1997 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1997 FORD F-150
Component
FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY
State
Ohio

Complaint Description

WHEN FILLING THE GAS TANK FUEL WILL SPILL OUT, CAUSING A DISTRACTION TO THE CONSUMER. DEALER NOTIFIED. *AK

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 410309
ODI Number 10022022
Date Filed June 2, 2003
Failure Date May 30, 2003

Similar FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY Complaints for 1997 FORD F-150

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