2024 Ford F-150
This year drew an ordinary 579 complaints for a Ford F-150 — the model's median is 3,077. What they were about is the unusual part: 29.7% of them mention headlights, against 10.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 4 of the Ford F-150, which began in 2021. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
| Complaints filed | 579 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 3,077 |
| Involving a crash | 55 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- headlights — 29.7% of this year's complaints, against 10.8% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: headlights, bright, too, too bright.
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
Excessive blinding headlights. Dangerous to encounter oncoming traffic at night. Too bright and alignment/aim is too high.
This vehicles headlights are too bright and too high up on the vehicle. I am blinded anytime one is in oncoming traffic or behind me. It is a hazard while they are around because I can not see in my mirrors and have lingering spots in my eye sight long after I…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V329000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 24V486000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 24V851000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 24V852000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 25V022000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 25V164000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V198000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 25V315000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. 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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