2006 FORD F-550 SD — Complaint #777413
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY filed March 28, 2010
NHTSA complaint #777413 (ODI reference 10322540) concerns a 2006 FORD F-550 SD and was filed on March 28, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 9, 2009. The vehicle had 28,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, diesel:storage:tank assembly, 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-550 SD cohort independently describe similar fuel system, diesel:storage:tank assembly 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 F-550 SD shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2004 AND 2006 FORD F550 FUEL TANK DELAMINATION. FUEL SYSTEM IS COMPROMISED WHEN TANKS DELAMINATE CAUSING THE FILTERS TO BE BLOCKED, ROBBING THE ENGINE OF THE FUEL IT NEEDS TO RUN. HAVE REPLACED TANKS - FORD REFUSES TO PAY. THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE AND SHOULD BE RECALLED IMMEDIATELY. UPON CHANGING THE FILTERS, THEY WERE FOUND WITH RUST PARTICLES WHICH ENABLED THE ENGINE FROM RUNNING. THE FUEL SENDING UNIT WAS ALSO RUSTING FROM THE INSIDE OUT. UPDATED 04/28/10
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 777413 |
| ODI Number | 10322540 |
| Date Filed | March 28, 2010 |
| Failure Date | December 9, 2009 |
| VIN | 1FDAW57P96E |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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