2017 Ford Explorer
This year drew 1,683 complaints against a median of 416 across the Ford Explorer's other years, 4× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 14 recalls, listed below.
Generation 2 of the Ford Explorer, which began in 2011 and ran to 2019. 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 | 1,683 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 416 |
| Involving a crash | 33 |
| Involving a fire | 11 |
| Recalls | 14 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 19V651000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V435000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 17E048000 WHEELS
- 17V530000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 17V332000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V925000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 21V316000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 21V537000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 14. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Explorer 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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