2025 Ford Maverick
This year drew an ordinary 94 complaints for a Ford Maverick — the model's median is 338. What they were about is the unusual part: 14.9% of them mention later, against 5.1% across the model's other years.
Generation 1 of the Ford Maverick, which began in 2022. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
| Complaints filed | 94 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 338 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 12 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- later — 14.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.1% across the model's other years (2.9×).
- became — 10.6% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the model's other years (4.4×).
- inoperable — 6.4% of this year's complaints, against 0.6% across the model's other years (10.8×).
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
Purchased vehicle new and after 3 days the power steering became inoperable as well as traction control , hillstart assist and showed that the fowrad camers was in default .
Precollision assist became unavailable twice while driving during my first few days of driving.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 25V343000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 25V350000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 25V787000 ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) Fixed free of charge.
- 25V828000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V863000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V884000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 26V104000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 26V122000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 12. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Maverick 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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