2006 FORD MUSTANG GT — Complaint #774104
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY:RELAY filed March 15, 2010
NHTSA complaint #774104 (ODI reference 10319849) concerns a 2006 FORD MUSTANG GT and was filed on March 15, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 15, 2009. The vehicle had 30,429 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:starter assembly:relay, 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 MUSTANG GT cohort independently describe similar electrical system:starter assembly:relay 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 2006 FORD MUSTANG GT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2006 FORD MUSTANG GT. THE CONTACT TURNED THE IGNITION TO THE START POSITION. IMMEDIATELY, THE VEHICLE BATTERY POWER FAILED; THE FRONT DRIVER AND PASSENGER WINDOWS RELEASED IN A DOWNWARD POSITION APPROXIMATELY 3 TO 4 INCHES WITHOUT ASSISTANCE. THE VEHICLE HAD A JUMP START AND RESUMED NORMALLY. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER AND THE RELAY SWITCH WAS REPLACED. THE TECHNICIAN STATED THAT THE FAILURE WAS A COMMON OCCURRENCE. THE IDENTICAL FAILURES OCCURRED ON A SEPARATE OCCASION. THE VEHICLE HAS NOT BEEN REPAIRED FOR THE MALFUNCTIONS. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 30,429. THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 43,000. UPDATED 05/06/10. *LJ UPDATED 09/07/10
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 774104 |
| ODI Number | 10319849 |
| Date Filed | March 15, 2010 |
| Failure Date | April 15, 2009 |
| VIN | 1ZVFT82H965 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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