Owner-reported complaints naming the fuel system system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming fuel storage or delivery — tanks, pumps, lines, injectors and fuel leaks. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1993 Ford Econoline submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 8 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
DT: THE CALLER SAID THERE WERE RECALLS 93V1000000 CONCERNING FUEL TANK AND 94V128000 CONCERNING INTERIOR LIGHTING , BUT THIS VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED. SHE HAD THE WORK DONE ON THE VEHICLE. THE CALLER SAID VEHICLE WOULD NOT START, AND THE DOME LIGHT WAS BLOWING FUSES AND MELTING. DEALER AND MANUFACTURER SAID THE CALLER'S VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALLS. *AK
VEHICLE FILLED WITH FUEL & PARKED ON AN INCLINE, AND FUEL WOULD THEN LEAK OUT. DOES NOT HAPPEN ON STRAIGHT AWAY. SOMETIMES FUEL WOULD SPLASH OR SLOSH OUT WHEN COMING TO A QUICK STOP. HAD NOT TAKEN TO DEALER AS OF YET.*AK
I RECENTLY PURCHASED THE VEHICLE AND WHEN EXAMINING THE UNDERSIDE OF THE VEHICLE I NOTICED STAINS ON FUEL LINES AND FUEL TANK FROM LEAKAGE. 1.THE FUEL RETURN HOSE IS BADLY CRACKED NEAR THE FUEL TANK AND HAS BEEN LEAKING. 2. THE FLOOR OF THE VEHICLE DIRECTLY ABOVE THE FUEL RETURN LINE IS STAINED FROM FUEL WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN SPRAYED UPWARD FROM THE FUEL LINE. 3. THERE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN LEAKAGE ONTO THE TOP OF THE FUEL TANK WHICH HAS FLOWED DOWN THE SIDE OF THE TANK, POSSIBLY FROM THE SPRAY FROM THE FUEL RETURN LINE OR BAD GASKETS ON THE TOP OF THE FUEL TANK . 4. THERE ARE 2 DEEP CRACKS IN THE RUBBER HOSE WHICH RUNS FROM THE FUEL FILLER TO THE TANK, THERE IS NO SIGN OF LEAKAGE FROM THESE CRACKS. I FELT THAT THESE PROBLEMS SHOULD NOT BE APPEARING ON A 1993 VEHICLE AND THAT I SHOULD NOTIFY NHTSA OF THESE PROBLEMS. THANK YOU, DOUG NELSON
PLASTIC FUEL TANK SEEMS SPLIT ON TOP OF TANK.NOW LEAKING FUEL AND FUMES.TOOK IT TO FORD AND THEY SAID THEY CANNOT HELP ME BECAUSE ITS OUT OF WARRANTY.CALLED FORD'S MAIN OFFICE IN DETROIT, AND THEY ALSO SAID THEY CANNOT HELP ME. A FUEL TANK SHOULD NOT BE A PART OF A WARRANTY ITEM. THERE IS NO WEAR AND TEAR LIKE BRAKE/ENGINE/DRIVE TRAIN.ALL IT DOES IT HOLDS GASOLINE. IT SHOULD NOT CRACK OR SPLIT IN A 5 YEARS.IT SHOULD LAST ALMOST THE LIFE OF THE VEHICLE.I NOTICED THIS PROBLEM BECAUSE I CHECK UNDER MY TRUCK OFTEN. THERE COULD BE 1000'S OF VAN OUT THERE WITH THIS PROBLEM. I'M HAVING THE VAN FIXED ON THE 29TH OF JAN. 99 BY AN INDEPENDENT DEALER.HE WILL BE REPLACING THE FUEL TANK FOR APPROX. $500. I SHOULD BE REIMBURSED FOR THIS REPAIRS FROM FORD DUE TO A DEFECT OF WORKMANSHIP ON THE TANK, AND IT SHOULDN'T BE CONSIDERED A WARRANTY ITEM IN ANY VEHICLE. *AK
WHENEVER REFILLING THE GAS TANK THE GAS FUMES GET STRONGER, ALSO GAS CAME OUT OF FILLER NECK ONTO THE VEHICLE. DEALER / MFR. NOT NOTIFIED AT THIS TIME. *AK
FUEL OVERFLOW HOSE FAILED AND LEAKES. DEALER NOTIFIED, AND WAS ABLE TO RECEIVE PART FROM PARTS SHOP. MANUFACTURER NOT NOTIFIED AT THIS TIME. *AK
WHEN THE TEMPERATURE REACHES 80 DEGREES OR HIGHER THERE IS A STRONG FUEL ODOR. THE HOTTER THE TEMPERATURE THE STRONGER THE ODOR. THE PROBLEM HAS NOT BEEN CORRECTED. *AK
WHEN THE FUEL TANK IS FILLED, A FUEL LEAK IS EXPERIENCED ON TOP OF THE TANK. THE DEALER IS UNABLE TO DETERMINE THE PROBLEM AND CAUSE. *AK
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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