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EQUIPMENT
The leaking oil may soak into the thermal blanket covering the exhaust, which when combined with heat from exhaust, may result in an increased risk of fire.
2013 FORD F-550
1 safety recall campaign, 1 defect investigation, 6 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints6
Complaints citing a crash0
Complaints citing a fire1
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
- 2ENGINE
- 1FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 1STEERING
- 1UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 1WHEELS
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2013 FORD F-550s 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.