2016 Ford Transit
This year drew an ordinary 159 complaints for a Ford Transit — the model's median is 180. What they were about is the unusual part: 31.4% of them mention coupling, against 10.7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 159 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 180 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 21 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- coupling — 31.4% of this year's complaints, against 10.7% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: coupling, between, body, coupler.
- driveshaft — 28.3% of this year's complaints, against 11.1% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: driveshaft, lines, flexible, flexible coupling.
- driven — 15.7% of this year's complaints, against 5.6% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: driven, mechanical, vehicle being, roof.
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
DEALER PERFORMED RECALL 17S15 DRIVESHAFT ASSY THAT REPLACED THE REAR DRIVESHAFT COUPLING. AT THE TIME, THE FRONT DRIVESHAFT COUPLING WAS OBSERVED TO BE LOOSE. THE FRONT COUPLING WAS INSPECTED AND [VIN]. LESS THAN 6000 MILES LATER THE FRONT DRIVESHAFT COUPLING…
Ford automotive previously repaired the flexible driveshaft coupling, on my vehicle at about 57k miles, under recall 19S38. That exact same part failed prematurely, yesterday, at about 110k miles. I just contacted Ford and they said it was a permanent fix and…
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.
- 19V332000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V271000 EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY
Showing 8 of 21. 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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