2008 Ford F-150
This year drew 368 complaints against a median of 3,077 across the Ford F-150's other years, 0.1× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 1 recall, listed below.
Last year of its generation. This Ford F-150 ran from 2004 to 2008, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 368 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 3,077 |
| Involving a crash | 39 |
| Involving a fire | 12 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 15 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 08V523000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford F-150 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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