2003 FORD TAURUS — Complaint #795564
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS filed June 25, 2010
NHTSA complaint #795564 (ODI reference 10339946) concerns a 2003 FORD TAURUS and was filed on June 25, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 22, 2010. The vehicle had 73,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maine based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:rear:springs, 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 TAURUS cohort independently describe similar suspension:rear:springs 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 TAURUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
FORD TAURUS 2003 REAR COIL SPRING BROKEN. CAUSED RUBBING ON TIRE ON SAME SIDE WHICH WORE A DEEP GROOVE IN THE SIDE WALL. ALSO CAUSED TIRE ON OPPOSITE SIDE TO WEAR UNEVENLY. HAD TO REPLACE BOTH TIRES AS WELL AS REPLACE COIL SPRINGS BOTH SIDES. LIVE IN MAINE (SALT- BELT STATE). BOUGHT AS USED VEHICLE. DON'T KNOW IF FRONT SPRINGS WERE REPLACED. DATE OF INCIDENT WAS WHEN THE DEFECT WAS FOUND ON REGULAR INSPECTION. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 795564 |
| ODI Number | 10339946 |
| Date Filed | June 25, 2010 |
| Failure Date | June 22, 2010 |
| VIN | 1FAFP53U33G |
Similar SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS Complaints for 2003 FORD TAURUS
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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