2003 FORD EXPEDITION — Complaint #837419
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:INTEGRATED CHILD SEAT filed January 18, 2011
NHTSA complaint #837419 (ODI reference 10377126) concerns a 2003 FORD EXPEDITION and was filed on January 18, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 17, 2010. The vehicle had 65,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to South Carolina 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 EXPEDITION 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 2003 FORD EXPEDITION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
MY 2003 FORD EXPEDITION SECOND ROW MIDDLE SEATBELT WILL NOT FASTEN. I HAVE TRIED SEVERAL TIMES AND CAN NOT GET IT TO WORK, MY 5YR. OLD CAN NOT BE BUCKLED. THEY SHOULD GIVE ME ANOTHER ONE ,BUT THE FORD DEALER WANTS TO CHARGE ME 150.00 BUCKS. WHAT SHOULD I DO? *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 837419 |
| ODI Number | 10377126 |
| Date Filed | January 18, 2011 |
| Failure Date | December 17, 2010 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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