2000 FORD RANGER — Complaint #901601
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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:RECLINER filed January 24, 2012
NHTSA complaint #901601 (ODI reference 10445059) concerns a 2000 FORD RANGER and was filed on January 24, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 20, 2012. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats:front assembly:recliner, 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 RANGER cohort independently describe similar seats:front assembly:recliner 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 RANGER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
DRIVER'S SIDE SEAT RECLINER RETENTION BOLT HEADS SHEARED OFF WHILE DRIVING, CAUSING DRIVER'S SIDE SEAT TO FALL BACK AGAINST BACK WALL OF TRUCK CAB. ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVOIDED AS HANDS MOMENTARILY CAME OFF OF STEERING WHEEL; FORTUNATELY, TRUCK WAS NOT AN EXTENDED CAB VERSION SO CONTROL WAS REGAINED QUICKLY. 1ST BOLT PROBABLY HAD BROKEN OFF SOME TIME IN THE PAST, (DATE UNKNOWN); 2ND BOLT HEAD BROKE ON DATE INDICATED. FORD ISSUED RECALL 03S04S1 IN 2006 FOR THIS SAME PROBLEM IN THE 1998 - 2001 EXPLORER; HOWEVER, FORD STATES RECALL 03S04S1 DOES NOT COVER RANGER EVEN THOUGH THERE IS EVIDENCE THE SAME SEAT DESIGN AND BOLTS ARE USED IN BOTH MODELS. OTHER RECALLS HAVE ALSO BEEN ISSUED FOR RECLINER PROBLEMS IN FORD SUV'S (SEE RECALL 03V281000) IN THIS SAME MODEL YEAR 2000 TIMEFRAME. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 901601 |
| ODI Number | 10445059 |
| Date Filed | January 24, 2012 |
| Failure Date | January 20, 2012 |
| VIN | 1FTYR10C11P |
Similar SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:RECLINER Complaints for 2000 FORD RANGER
THE TWO RODS THAT HOLD THE FOAM IN THE BACK OF THE DRIVER'S SEAT BROKE. THEY JUST SNAPPED INTO TWO PIECES. IF THE VEHICLE IS INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT, THE SEAT WILL NOT SUPPORT THE DRIVES BACK OR HOLD
DT*: THE CONTACT STATED WHILE SITTING IN THE VEHICLE, THE BACK OF THE SEAT FELL BACKWARD. THE VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN TO THE DEALER WHO DETERMINED THE RECLINER MECHANISM NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. UPDATED
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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