2005 FORD MUSTANG — Complaint #924310
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NHTSA Complaint about VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:CABLES filed June 22, 2012
NHTSA complaint #924310 (ODI reference 10462709) concerns a 2005 FORD MUSTANG and was filed on June 22, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 16, 2010. The vehicle had 75,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Colorado based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as vehicle speed control:cables, 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 MUSTANG cohort independently describe similar vehicle speed control:cables 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 2005 FORD MUSTANG shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 FORD MUSTANG. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE INSTRUMENT PANEL FAILED. THE FUEL GAUGE WOULD READ EMPTY WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS FULL OF GASOLINE. IN ADDITION, THE SPEEDOMETER AND THE OIL LEVEL GAUGE FAILED. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO A MECHANIC FOR INSPECTION AND THEY INFORMED HIM THAT THE SPEEDOMETER CABLES NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED BUT THE FAILURE RECURRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED AND STATED THAT THE PROBLEM WAS COMMON FOR ALL 2005 FORD MUSTANGS. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 75,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 924310 |
| ODI Number | 10462709 |
| Date Filed | June 22, 2012 |
| Failure Date | June 16, 2010 |
| VIN | 1ZVFT80N455 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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