2015 Ford Edge
This year drew an ordinary 720 complaints for a Ford Edge — the model's median is 743. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.8% of them mention body, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Ford Edge was redesigned for 2015. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 720 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 743 |
| Involving a crash | 18 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- body — 7.8% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (6.1×). Owners wrote it as: body, throttle, throttle body.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
THE THROTTLE BODY OF MY CAR WAS REPLACED WITH 5500 MILLES. MY CAR BROKE DOWN AT 70 MILLES/HOUR ON THE FREEWAY. THE CAR SUDDENLY LOSS POWER.
DRIVING DOWN MAJOR HIGHWAY. CAR ENGINE LURCHED AND THEN SUDDENLY LOST ALL ACCELERATION POWER. HAD TO COAST TO A STOP BY SIDE OF HIGHWAY. ENGINE CONTINUED RUNNING VERY ROUGHLY. NO ACCELERATION OR ABILITY TO DRIVE. DEALERSHIP DEEMED IT A ELECTRONIC THROTTLE BODY…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V632000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 16V733000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 15V250000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 20V469000 SERVICE BRAKES Fixed free of charge.
- 22V413000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V544000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 25V572000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Edge was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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