11V049000
STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR
IN THE EVENT OF A SIDE IMPACT CRASH, THE DOOR HANDLE SPRING CAN FAIL CAUSING THE DOOR LATCH TO OPEN.
2009 FORD F-150
1 safety recall campaign, 400 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints400
Complaints citing a crash34
Complaints citing a fire8
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 52VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 42ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 42ENGINE
- 29STEERING
- 25SERVICE BRAKES
- 23POWER TRAIN
- 22STRUCTURE:BODY
- 13FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2009 FORD F-150s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.