2010 Ford F-150
This year drew an ordinary 2,534 complaints for a Ford F-150 — the model's median is 3,077. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.7% of them mention outside, against 2.9% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Ford F-150, which began in 2009 and ran to 2014. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
| Complaints filed | 2,534 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 3,077 |
| Involving a crash | 69 |
| Involving a fire | 105 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- outside — 7.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the other years of this generation (2.7×).
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
ON THE CREW CAB THE BACK PASSENGER DOOR WILL NOT OPEN FROM EITHER INSIDE OR OUTSIDE OF THE TRUCK VERY UNSAFE IF YOU HAVE PASSENGERS IN THE BACK SEAT.
REAR GLASS SHATTERED WHILE DRIVING, THERE WAS NO OBJECT THAT IMPACTED THE GLASS. REAR WINDOW DEFROSTER WAS ON WHILE IT SHATTERED. OUTSIDE [VIN] WAS 45F.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 11V049000 STRUCTURE 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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