2015 Ford Fusion
This year drew an ordinary 2,048 complaints for a Ford Fusion — the model's median is 1,949. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.1% of them mention brake pedal, against 3.2% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Ford Fusion, which began in 2013. 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 | 2,048 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 1,949 |
| Involving a crash | 74 |
| Involving a fire | 12 |
| Recalls | 13 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 26 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- brake pedal — 9.1% of this year's complaints, against 3.2% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: brake pedal, depressed, brake fluid, brake line.
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
while his wife was driving at an undisclosed speed, the brakes failed to stop the vehicle in a reasonable time. The contact's wife continued driving and noticed that the brake pedal went to the floorboard when depressed. The contact inspected the vehicle and n…
HEARD A POP WHEN I PRESSED ON THE BRAKE PEDAL WHEN I WAS STOPPED. BROKE THE BRAKE LINE. BRAKE FLUID LEAKED OUT EVERYWHERE AND EVENTUALLY LOST ALL USE OF THE BRAKES. THE SHOP SAID THAT THAT THE RUBBER HOSE ON BOTH SIDES WERE SWOLLEN. THE PASSENGER SIDE WAS WEAK…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V632000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 18V471000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 19V590000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V362000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 16V875000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V167000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 15V250000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 14V736000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 13. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Fusion 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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