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Model years to avoid

Ford F-150

What it says about you

Opinion

The most popular vehicle in the country and you did not buy it to be like everyone else, you bought it because it works. Those are the same decision and you would rather they were not.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 66,273 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2013 (shift). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • shifting 2013, 2018, 2019 peak 30.8% of that year's complaints
  • cruise 2007, 2009, 2025 peak 19.5% of that year's complaints
  • gears 2018, 2019 peak 17.7% of that year's complaints
  • visibility 2020, 2021 peak 13.1% of that year's complaints
  • pass 2011, 2012 peak 9.7% of that year's complaints
  • ecoboost 2011, 2012 peak 9.6% of that year's complaints
  • pressure 2007, 2009 peak 7.4% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 1 recall 13 complaints
  2. 2025 12 recalls 318 complaints
  3. 2024 10 recalls 579 complaints
  4. 2023 12 recalls 1,284 complaints
  5. 2022 23 recalls 3,077 complaints
  6. 2021 29 recalls 5,121 complaints
  7. 2020 11 recalls 2,553 complaints
  8. 2019 9 recalls 5,744 complaints
  9. 2018 19 recalls 5,540 complaints
  10. 2017 18 recalls 3,217 complaints
  11. 2016 14 recalls 5,088 complaints
  12. 2015 14 recalls 4,275 complaints
  13. 2014 8 recalls 4,086 complaints
  14. 2013 shift 8,388 complaints
  15. 2012 4 recalls 5,151 complaints
  16. 2011 6 recalls 6,411 complaints
  17. 2010 1 recall 2,534 complaints
  18. 2009 2 recalls 324 complaints
  19. 2008 1 recall 368 complaints
  20. 2007 7 recalls 492 complaints
  21. 2006 14 recalls 589 complaints
  22. 2005 14 recalls 1,121 complaints

What does a Ford F-150 say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.