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2001 FORD F-150 — Complaint #871372

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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:AUXILLARY TANK filed August 2, 2011

NHTSA complaint #871372 (ODI reference 10416802) concerns a 2001 FORD F-150 and was filed on August 2, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 8, 2010. The vehicle had 170,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Hampshire 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. 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 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
New Hampshire
Mileage
170,000 mi

Complaint Description

GAS TANK FELL OUT OF MY 2001 F-150 RUPTURING GAS IN THE STREET. COST ME $1500 TO FIX AND CLEAN UP. WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS? *KB

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 871372
ODI Number 10416802
Date Filed August 2, 2011
Failure Date July 8, 2010

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