2010 Ford Mustang
This year drew an ordinary 260 complaints for a Ford Mustang — the model's median is 264. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.9% of them mention hood, against 2.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Ford Mustang, which began in 2005 and ran to 2014. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 260 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 264 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- hood — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: hood, paint, bubbling, paint bubbling.
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
MY HOOD (AND I HAVE NOTICED VERY MANY HOODS) THE PAINT IS BUBBLING UP AND PEELING AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS DONE BY THE MECHANICS. I PUNCHED IT UP ON THE COMPUTER AND SAW MANY COMPLAINTS ABOUT IT. I WAS WAITING FOR SOME KIND OF RECALL. MY CAR IS NOW 5 YRS OLD…
I JUST BOUGHT MY 2010 MUSTANG, A CAR I'VE WANTED FOR WELL OVER A DECADE AND NOTICED THE BUBBLING ON THE HOOD. I FIGURED THIS WOULD BE SOMETHING I COULD JUST TAKE TO A BODY SHOP AND HAVE FIXED FOR A FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS, BUT AFTER READING UP ON THIS ISSUE, IT IS…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V001000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V081000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21E013000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V046000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V384000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V319000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Mustang 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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