2015 Ford Transit
This year drew an ordinary 191 complaints for a Ford Transit — the model's median is 162. What they were about is the unusual part: 15.7% of them mention fuel, against 3.8% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 191 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 162 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 26 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 15.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the model's other years (4.2×).
- pump — 14.7% of this year's complaints, against 4.8% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: pump, metal, fuel system, diesel.
- mph vehicle — 15.2% of this year's complaints, against 5.7% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: mph vehicle, driving approximately, vibrated, fuel line.
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 DRIVING 70 MPH, THE ENGINE STALLED AND THE VEHICLE WENT INTO LIMP MODE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO FOX FORD MAZDA (3560 28TH STREET GRAND RAPIDS MI, 49512 PHONE: ([phone])) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THERE WERE METAL SHAVINGS IN THE FUEL INJECTOR AND FUEL…
WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 45-50 MPH, THE VEHICLE VIBRATED. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS VEERED TO THE RIGHT OR TO THE LEFT, IT VIBRATED UNCONTROLLABLY. THE FAILURE RECURRED MULTIPLE TIMES. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE APPROX…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V103000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 18V275000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 19V333000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V183000 EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 19V205000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V782000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V271000 EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY
- 19V767000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 26. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Transit 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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