Owner-reported complaints naming the engine system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the engine itself — including stalling, misfires, oil consumption, cooling and internal engine components. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1987 Ford F-150 submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 9 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
CONSUMER STATED WHILE DRIVING, HE NOTICED SMOKE COMING FROM UNDER THE HOOD, CONSUMER THEN PULLED OVER AND THE VEHICLE BECAME ENGULFED IN FLAMES.( OHIO TRAFFIC CRASH REPORT #10-89-278)
FAULTY EXHAUST MANIFOLD; VEHICLE HAD SEVEN MANIFOLD REPLACMENT SINCE OWNING THE VEHICLE. ASKING NHTSA TO LOOK INTO THIS MATTER.
WATER PUMP AND TIMING CHAIN AND GEAR FAILED.
ENGINE OIL PAN HAD MANY RUST SPOTS, CAUSING OIL LEAKS.
WHILE DRIVING, THE VEHICLE WOULD CUT OFF, GIVING THE OWNER NO INDICATION THAT THE VEHICLE WOULD CUT OFF, THE DEALER WAS NOTIFIED ABOUT THE PROBLEM, OWNER STATES THAT THE VEHICLE HAD GOTTEN SO BAD THAT SHE TRADED THE VEHICLE IN FOR A NEWER MODEL TRUCK. *AK *JB
VEHICLE FIRE.
UPON STARTING, HEARD LOUD POP SOUND, SMOKE CAME FROM ENGINE COMPARTMENT, THEN SUDDENLY VEHICLE BECAME ENGULFED IN FLAMES. *AK
ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRE. *SD
CATALYTIC CONVERTER BECAME COMPLETELY PLUGGED, CAUSING VEHICLE TO STALL. (SECOND VEHICLE ON 502328) *DH
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.
Categories with enough reports to have a page of their own
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