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2000 FORD WINDSTAR — Complaint #589014

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:COIL SPRINGS filed July 19, 2006

NHTSA complaint #589014 (ODI reference 10162844) concerns a 2000 FORD WINDSTAR and was filed on July 19, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 14, 2006. The vehicle had 56,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:springs:coil springs, 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 WINDSTAR cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:springs:coil springs 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 2000 FORD WINDSTAR shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2000 FORD WINDSTAR
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:COIL SPRINGS
State
Pennsylvania
Mileage
56,000 mi

Complaint Description

DT*: THE CONTACT STATED WHILE BACKING OUT OF A PARKING SPACE AT LOW SPEED, THE RIGHT FRONT COIL SPRING FRACTURED AND PUNCTURED THE TIRE WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WILL BE INSPECTION BY AN INDEPENDENT REPAIR SHOP.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 589014
ODI Number 10162844
Date Filed July 19, 2006
Failure Date July 14, 2006
VIN 2FMDA5340YB

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