2000 FORD F-350 SD — Complaint #883847
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY filed October 6, 2011
NHTSA complaint #883847 (ODI reference 10428904) concerns a 2000 FORD F-350 SD and was filed on October 6, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 2, 2011. The vehicle had 145,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, diesel:storage:tank assembly, 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-350 SD cohort independently describe similar fuel system, diesel:storage:tank assembly 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 2000 FORD F-350 SD shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 FORD F-350 SD. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 35 MPH, THE CONTACT HEARD A NOISE FROM THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT STOPPED THE VEHICLE TO INSPECT THE NOISE AND NOTICED THAT THE FRONT FUEL TANK STRAP WAS CORRODED AND FRACTURED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO THE DEALER FOR DIAGNOSTICS. THE CONTACT REFERENCED NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 11V385000 (FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY:MOUNTING) THAT AND CONTACTED THE MANUFACTURER BUT WAS ADVISED THAT THE VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 145,000. UPDATED 11/03/11*LJ UPDATED 12/02/11
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 883847 |
| ODI Number | 10428904 |
| Date Filed | October 6, 2011 |
| Failure Date | October 2, 2011 |
| VIN | 1FTSF31F3YE |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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