2004 FORD EXCURSION — Complaint #915161
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:OTHER FUEL TYPES:TURBO/SUPERCHARGER filed April 19, 2012
NHTSA complaint #915161 (ODI reference 10455772) concerns a 2004 FORD EXCURSION and was filed on April 19, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 6, 2012. The vehicle had 74,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine:other fuel types:turbo/supercharger, 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 EXCURSION cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:engine:other fuel types:turbo/supercharger 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 2004 FORD EXCURSION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE HOSE FROM THE TURBO TO THE INTAKE COOLER WILL BLOW OFF AND CAUSE PRESSURE LOSS. WHEN TOWING A TRAILER ON A HILL THE ENGINE TURBO SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE HIGH PRESSURE AND WILL BLOW THE HOSE CONNECTING THE TURBO TO THE INTAKE COOLER. THE VEHICLE ENDS UP WITHOUT POWER, MAKING THE SITUATION EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TO RIDERS AND OTHER VEHICLES DUE TO THE RADICAL DECELERATION, FROM 65MPH TO ABOUT 15MPH WHILE TRYING TO PULL TO THE SIDE. THE PROBLEM IS A COMMON ISSUE TO FORD OWNERS WITH DIESEL ENGINES 2004 AND 2005, MAYBE OTHERS. INTERNET SEARCHED "FORD TURBO HOSE BLOW OFF". *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 915161 |
| ODI Number | 10455772 |
| Date Filed | April 19, 2012 |
| Failure Date | April 6, 2012 |
| VIN | 1FMNU42P24E |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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