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2001 FORD F-150 — Complaint #865372

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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:AUXILLARY TANK filed July 5, 2011

NHTSA complaint #865372 (ODI reference 10410610) concerns a 2001 FORD F-150 and was filed on July 5, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 1, 2011. The vehicle had 236,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:storage:auxillary tank, 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 fuel system, gasoline:storage:auxillary tank 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 2001 FORD F-150 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2001 FORD F-150
Component
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:AUXILLARY TANK
State
Wisconsin
Mileage
236,000 mi

Complaint Description

I WAS DRIVING SOUTH ON HWY 41 IN MILWAUKEE, WI. WHEN I HEARD A DRAGGING SOUND UNDER TRUCK. I PULLED OFF HWY AND DISCOVERED MY GAS TANK WAS DRAGGING FOR APPROX. 2 MILES. WHY IT DIDN'T BLOW UP I AM NOT SURE. TWO STRAPS SNAPPED. I HAD JUST FILLED THE TANK W/ $75.00 IN GAS AND HAD TRUCK TOWED AND APPROX. COST OF GETTING TRUCK FIXED IS $700.00 PLUS THE TOW. *KB

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 865372
ODI Number 10410610
Date Filed July 5, 2011
Failure Date July 1, 2011
VIN 2FTRX17W81C

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