1994 FORD F-150 — Complaint #527094
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER:STORAGE filed March 21, 2005
NHTSA complaint #527094 (ODI reference 10114441) concerns a 1994 FORD F-150 and was filed on March 21, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 21, 2005. The vehicle had 181,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Oklahoma based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, other:storage, 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 fuel system, other:storage 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 1994 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
A MALFUNCTIONING CHECK VALVE WITHIN THE FUEL PUMP ASSEMBLY CAUSES A PORTION OF THE UNUSED FUEL FROM ONE TANK TO BE RETURNED TO THE SECOND TANK. WHEN THIS OCCURS, THE CAPACITY OF THE SECOND TANK CAN BE EXCEEDED, CAUSING FUEL SPILLAGE
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 527094 |
| ODI Number | 10114441 |
| Date Filed | March 21, 2005 |
| Failure Date | March 21, 2005 |
| VIN | 1FTEF14N1RL |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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