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2004 FORD F-150 — Complaint #725379

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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:INTEGRATED CHILD SEAT filed June 29, 2009

NHTSA complaint #725379 (ODI reference 10275234) concerns a 2004 FORD F-150 and was filed on June 29, 2009. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 26, 2009. The vehicle had 62,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Alaska based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:integrated child seat, 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 seat belts:integrated child seat 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 2004 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2004 FORD F-150
Component
SEAT BELTS:INTEGRATED CHILD SEAT
State
Alaska
Mileage
62,000 mi

Complaint Description

THIS IS REGARDING OUR REAR SEATBELTS FAILING ON OUR 2004 FORD F-150 1. MY WIFE PUTTING OUR CAR SEATS BACK IN THE TRUCK 2. TWO SEATBELTS FELL APART, IT APPEARS AS THOUGH A NUT HOLDING THEM CAME LOOSE 3. FORD WILL NOT FIX THIS UNDER ANY WARRANTY SINCE I'M OUTSIDE MY WARRANTY TIME. IN MY MIND THIS SHOULD BE A RECALL OR A LIFETIME WARRANTY. BOTH OF THESE SEATBELTS WERE CONNECTED TO 2 OF OUR BABY SEATS; AT ANY TIME WE COULD HAVE SIMPLY HIT THE BRAKES AND THEY BOTH WOULD HAVE COME LOOSE. I'M SURPRISED THEY WANT TO WAIT UNTIL AN ACCIDENT OCCURS TO MAKE IT A RECALL. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 725379
ODI Number 10275234
Date Filed June 29, 2009
Failure Date June 26, 2009
VIN 1FTPW14554F

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