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Model years to avoid

Ford Flex

What it says about you

Opinion

Shaped like a fridge on purpose, three usable rows, and a small devoted following. You are in it and you will not be talked out of it.

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

11 model years on record, 1,888 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2013 (door). 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.

  • camera 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 peak 63.7% of that year's complaints
  • wheel 2011, 2012 peak 22.9% of that year's complaints
  • ecoboost 2010, 2011 peak 11.5% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2019 4 recalls 234 complaints
  2. 2018 3 recalls 61 complaints
  3. 2017 4 recalls 42 complaints
  4. 2016 3 recalls 94 complaints
  5. 2015 4 recalls 102 complaints
  6. 2014 4 recalls 249 complaints
  7. 2013 door 578 complaints
  8. 2012 2 recalls 64 complaints
  9. 2011 2 recalls 144 complaints
  10. 2010 1 recall 139 complaints
  11. 2009 1 recall 181 complaints

What does a Ford Flex 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.