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2003 FORD F-250 SD — Complaint #666680

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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE filed April 21, 2008

NHTSA complaint #666680 (ODI reference 10225313) concerns a 2003 FORD F-250 SD and was filed on April 21, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 5, 2008. The vehicle had 53,197 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine:gasoline, 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-250 SD cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:engine:gasoline 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 2003 FORD F-250 SD shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2003 FORD F-250 SD
Component
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE
State
Texas
Mileage
53,197 mi

Complaint Description

I WAS DRIVING ON HWY 59 SOUTH TO HOME WHEN A SPARK PLUG BLEW OUT OF MY 2003 F-250 WITH 5.4 MOTOR. NUMBER 3 PASSENGER SPARK PLUG BLEW OUT, TRUCK ONLY HAS 53,000 MILES ON IT. TRUCK WAS TOWED TO DEALERSHIP AND THEY ACTED LIKE THEY NEVER HEARD OF SUCH BUT THAT THEY HAD A KIT TO FIX IT. COST TO FIX WAS $454.36, THEN THE TOLD ME NO WARRANTY ON THE FIX. PLUS TOW BILL OF $149.00 FORD MOTOR COMPANY KNOWS OF THIS DEFECT AND REFUSES TO DO ANYTHING! *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 666680
ODI Number 10225313
Date Filed April 21, 2008
Failure Date April 5, 2008
VIN 1FTNW20L23E

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