This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
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After getting home from a trip, I smelled something burning about 2 hours after we'd been home. I walked around trying to figure out what it was and when I walked outside, I saw flames coming from the driver's side hood of our 1995 F-150. My husband went over to the drivers side door to open it so he could release the hood latch, get the hood up and put out the fire. When he did that, the oxygen from opening the door ignited the flames even more and the front of the truck just went up in flames and the driver's side front tire popped from the heat. The fire department was then called to extinguish the fire. The fire affected the whole front end of the truck including the interior cab. Luckily for us, at the time, it was not close to any other vehicles or the house.
The contact owns a 1995 Ford F150. The contact stated that he heard a loud noise and then noticed that the engine was on fire which spread to the rear end of the vehicle. The manufacturer took report number 1373833330 and advised the contact that he would receive a call back from counsel. The fire report was available upon request. The failure and current mileages were 160,000.
This morning our Ford F-150 burst into flames in the engine compartment. The truck had not been driven since the night before and the truck was just sitting in the driveway. We called the fire department and they put out the fire but the truck was destroyed.
Noticed oil leaking from oil pan. Initially thought that it was the oil plug. While changing oil detected that the oil pan was extremely rusted on exterior surface, and oil leaking from corroded surface of oil pan. Oil leak is getting progressivly worse. Concerned to drive vehicle on public roads in fear of losing all of the oil from engine and causing dangerous road conditions and serious damage to engine.
- Irwin, PA, USA
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Temperature gauge sticks most of the time, then it unsticks. Also cruise control went out. Consumer had the wires checked, mechanic did not find any problem. Mechanic wanted to charge him a great deal of money to help him.
Oil pressure gauge and water temperature gauge peg out high or vasilate on intermittent bases. Gauges can sometimes be "tapped down". sending units have been changed with no affect. This condition is very distractive and does not protect equipment in case of overheating.
The front disc brakes are always warped and there is unstable braking.tt consumer states there is grinding noise on right front brake, was advised to wait until it got worse, rotors and pads were finally replaced the original rotors were warped, consumer has had to have rotors and pads replaced four time due them being warped, was told that he would be getting a new truck, but has heard nothing else about that consumer also states fuel tank was leaking and also power steering noise, windshield wiper skips when there is light rain and noisy, passenger door handle haas a poor fir, exhaust system is loose, and rear sway bar bushings inoperative, temperature guage always low, shift indicator is off, head lamp is too high.
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- Georgetown, TX, USA