January 2, 2023 Ford Motor Company Product Claims Department 1-800-392-3673 P.O. Box 70 Dearborn, Michigan 48121 Vehicle VIN #1FTFW1ED5NFB14199 New 2022 Ford F-150 Dear Claims Department/Legal Department, On December 22, 2022 at approximately 5:00 p.m. Driver of vehicle was leaving the office to go home and as he entered the vehicle and sat in driver seat to turn the vehicle on the engine fired on and at that very moment a LOUD POP explosion sounded throughout the vehicle cabin. In the short duration to his home the vehicle had a static electrical sound amplifying through the vehicles speakers while the truck was on as well as when the vehicle was in the parked off position. I immediately phoned my fleet manager at Colley Ford in Glendora California and via telephone he acknowledged the vehicles state of trouble and notified me to have the vehicle inspected immediately for findings. Rather than pay for towing, GQ Landscape care decided to take said vehicle to the nearest Ford location from the office which is approximately 3.5 miles. The employee drove the vehicle with the windows unrolled as this noise being emitted was making him physically ill, headache and earache. Upon his arrival to Chino Hills Ford the service advisor Maria Ochoa documented the vehicles condition and also brought her service manager âTomâ out for inspection as neither one of them have had a vehicle thus far making such a horrible noise, they both acknowledged and recognized that this was not a n