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Model years to avoid

Ford Edge

What it says about you

Opinion

The crossover Ford sold to people who did not want an Explorer. Comfortable, anonymous, and entirely fit for purpose.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

18 model years on record, 13,832 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2013 (door ajar). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • door 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 peak 57.6% of that year's complaints
  • coolant 2016, 2017, 2018 peak 59.8% of that year's complaints
  • engine 2017, 2018 peak 68.6% of that year's complaints
  • transmission 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 peak 43.9% of that year's complaints
  • takata 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 peak 37.2% of that year's complaints
  • check 2016, 2018 peak 40.9% of that year's complaints
  • camera 2014, 2021 peak 29.6% of that year's complaints
  • cylinder 2016, 2017 peak 28.1% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2024 2 recalls 42 complaints
  2. 2023 4 recalls 18 complaints
  3. 2022 5 recalls 126 complaints
  4. 2021 7 recalls 103 complaints
  5. 2020 4 recalls 305 complaints
  6. 2019 3 recalls 743 complaints
  7. 2018 7 recalls 789 complaints
  8. 2017 8 recalls 1,308 complaints
  9. 2016 7 recalls 888 complaints
  10. 2015 7 recalls 720 complaints
  11. 2014 3 recalls 379 complaints
  12. 2013 door ajar 2,437 complaints
  13. 2012 3 recalls 1,131 complaints
  14. 2011 3 recalls 1,801 complaints
  15. 2010 7 recalls 673 complaints
  16. 2009 7 recalls 261 complaints
  17. 2008 7 recalls 1,119 complaints
  18. 2007 6 recalls 989 complaints

What does a Ford Edge say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.