2017 Ford Mustang
This year drew 264 complaints against a median of 260 across the Ford Mustang's other years, 1× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 6 recalls, listed below.
Generation 2 of the Ford Mustang, which began in 2015 and ran to 2023. 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 | 264 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 260 |
| Involving a crash | 14 |
| Involving a fire | 8 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 16V779000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 17V529000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V168000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 22V082000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V572000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V614000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Mustang 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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