1995 FORD CROWN VICTORIA — Complaint #56722
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:GEAR BOX:SHAFT PITMAN filed September 26, 1996
NHTSA complaint #56722 (ODI reference 531979) concerns a 1995 FORD CROWN VICTORIA and was filed on September 26, 1996. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:gear box:shaft pitman, 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 CROWN VICTORIA cohort independently describe similar steering:gear box:shaft pitman 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 1995 FORD CROWN VICTORIA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
BEARING IN THE PITMAN ARM OF THE STEERING SYSTEM MAY BECOME EXCESSIVELY WORN ALLOWING THE PITMAN ARM TO SEPARATE FROM THE CENTER LINK OF THE STEERING SYSTEM WITHOUT WARNING. DRIVER WOULD LIKELY EXPERIENCE LOSS OF STEERING CONTROL OF VEHICLE - AS PER RECALL. TWO HOURS AFTER SCHEDULED APPOINTMENT TIME FOR RECALL SERVICE, OWNER WAS INFORMED THAT REPAIRS COULD NOT BE PERFORMED BECAUSE THEY HAD NO INFORMATION ON THE RECALL.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 56722 |
| ODI Number | 531979 |
| Date Filed | September 26, 1996 |
| VIN | 2FALP72W6SX |
Similar STEERING:GEAR BOX:SHAFT PITMAN Complaints for 1995 FORD CROWN VICTORIA
FRONT DRIVER BALL JOINT DESIGN DESIGNED FOR FAILURE, UNDER NORMAL USE LOWER BALL JOINT RAPIDLY DETERIORATES AND CAUSES AN UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR VEHICLE. STEERING BECOMES ERRATIC AND STEERING WHEEL
PITMAN ARM ASSEMBLY SEPARATED, CAUSING LOSS OF STEERING. *DH
PITMAN ARM WORN ALMOST TO THE POINT OF FAILURE. *DH
PITMAN SHAFT SEPARATES FROM ARM, CAUSING LOSS OF CONTROL OF STEERING. (FIRST VEHICLE ON 601414, 601415) *DH
PITMAN SHAFT SEPARATES FROM ARM, CAUSING LOSS OF CONTROL OF STEERING. (SECOND VEHICLE ON 503161, 601415) *DH
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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