2019 Ford Fiesta
This year drew an ordinary 96 complaints for a Ford Fiesta — the model's median is 502. What they were about is the unusual part: 38.5% of them mention camera, against 0% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 96 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 502 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 30 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- camera — 38.5% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (192.7×).
- over — 35.4% of this year's complaints, against 10% across the model's other years (3.6×).
- blank — 13.5% of this year's complaints, against 0.3% across the model's other years (49.4×). Owners wrote it as: blank, blank image, receiving, image display.
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
notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 25V695000 (Back Over Prevention). The contact stated that prior to receiving the recall notification, the camera had been intermittently showing a blank image, or the display screen was blue, or the image was frozen. The…
Rearview camera disconnects and shows either a blank image or a garbled image. Same as other 2019 Ford Fiesta recalled back cameras. My vehicle's VIN number has not been included in the original recall.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V629000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 24V951000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V695000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Fiesta 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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