Model years Ford Transit Connect
2015 Ford Transit Connect
This year drew an ordinary 66 complaints for a Ford Transit Connect — the model's median is 28. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.1% of them mention parking lot, against 0% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 66 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 28 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
What the complaints were about
- parking lot — 6.1% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (30.3×).
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
AFTER ENTERING MY VEHICLE WHILE SITTING IN A PARKING LOT, THE DRIVER'S DOOR WOULDN'T LATCH. I SEE THAT THERE ARE OTHER COMPLAINTS OF SIMILAR FAILURES, BUT THE VIN DECODER SHOW NO UN-COMPLETED RECALLS ON THIS VEHICLE.
99398 MILES FRONT DRIVE AXLE REPLACED,99652 MILES VEHICLE GOT STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF PARKING LOT LANE PREVENTING SHIFTING OUT OF PARK (SHIFTER BUSHING REPLACED),99690 VEHICLE TRANSMISSION REPLACED,101043 MILES VALUE COVER OIL LEAK,101500 TRUCK IDLE SURGING.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V331000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 20V260000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 21V376000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 16V643000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 17V209000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 15V406000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 15V005000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 22V413000 POWER TRAIN 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 Transit Connect 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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