2010 FORD FUSION — Complaint #882839
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AXLE HUBS filed September 30, 2011
NHTSA complaint #882839 (ODI reference 10428014) concerns a 2010 FORD FUSION and was filed on September 30, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 9, 2011. The vehicle had 37,571 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 power train:axle hubs, 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 FUSION cohort independently describe similar power train:axle hubs 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 2010 FORD FUSION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 FORD FUSION HYBRID. THE CONTACT STATED WHILE HAVING AN OIL CHANGE THE MECHANIC NOTICED THE FRONT RIGHT AXLE NUT HAD COME LOOSE. THE CONTACT SPOKE TO THE DEALER WHO STATED THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO SINCE THE WARRANTY HAD EXPIRED. THE DEALER INSTALLED A NEW AXLE NUT. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WAS A MANUFACTURERS DEFECT THAT COULD CAUSE THE TIRE TO DISCONNECT FROM THE VEHICLE AND CAUSE A CRASH. THE FAILURE MILEAGE 37,571. UPDATED 10/14/11 *BF UPDATED 11/02/11
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 882839 |
| ODI Number | 10428014 |
| Date Filed | September 30, 2011 |
| Failure Date | September 9, 2011 |
| VIN | 3FADP0L32AR |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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