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1995 FORD CROWN VICTORIA — Complaint #646162

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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:GEAR BOX:SHAFT PITMAN filed November 14, 2007

NHTSA complaint #646162 (ODI reference 10208934) concerns a 1995 FORD CROWN VICTORIA and was filed on November 14, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 5, 2007. The report was geocoded to North Carolina 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: 1, 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 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.

Vehicle
1995 FORD CROWN VICTORIA
Component
STEERING:GEAR BOX:SHAFT PITMAN
Injuries
1
State
North Carolina

Complaint Description

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 FEELS LOOSE. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 646162
ODI Number 10208934
Date Filed November 14, 2007
Failure Date November 5, 2007

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