2015 Ford F-150
This year drew an ordinary 4,275 complaints for a Ford F-150 — the model's median is 2,553. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.7% of them mention assist, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Ford F-150 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.
| Complaints filed | 4,275 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 2,553 |
| Involving a crash | 120 |
| Involving a fire | 36 |
| Recalls | 14 |
| EPA combined | 19.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- assist — 9.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: assist, hill, hill assist, advance.
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
WHILE IN MOTION AND ON THE FREEWAY THERE IS POWER LOSS, SHAKING, ENGINE SPUTTERING AND BARELY HAS ENOUGH POWER TO GET OFF THE ROAD, HILL START ASSIST DISABLED, DECENT CONTROL DISABLED, SERVICE WRENCH INDICATOR, SERVICE ADVANCE TRAC. I POWERED OFF THE TRUCK, WA…
VEHICLE LOST POWER AND FLASHED 3 WARNING MESSAGES. 1) HILL START ASSIST NOT AVAILABLE. 2) SEE MANUAL. 3) SERVICE ADVANCE TRAC. IN ADDITION THE SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT STAYS ON. ALL OF THIS HAPPENED WHILE I WAS MAKING A LEFT TURN IN TRAFFIC ALMOST CAUSING A COLLIS…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V894000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 19V278000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V568000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V652000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 17V526000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V331000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES
- 15V867000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V614000 FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 14. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford F-150 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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