2019 Ford Mustang
This year drew an ordinary 253 complaints for a Ford Mustang — the model's median is 264. What they were about is the unusual part: 21.7% of them mention check, against 6.7% across the other years of this generation.
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 | 253 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 264 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- check — 21.7% of this year's complaints, against 6.7% across the other years of this generation (3.2×).
- motor — 12.6% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: motor, passenger window, noises, because running.
- month — 9.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.1% across the other years of this generation (4.8×). Owners wrote it as: month, open driving, dash lights, continues lose.
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
Car was taken to FORD for diagnosis because it was running oddly and the service light kept coming on. After taking it in Ford said there was nothing wrong with it and 2 days later it blows a head gasket and comes to a screeching halrt and the motor seizes.
PASSENGER POWER WINDOW ROLLS DOWN WITHOUT ANY BUTTONS BEING PUSHED (UNCOMMANDED). WHEN ROLLED UP BY EITHER PASSENGER OR DRIVER'S BUTTON WILL ROLL DOWN BY ITSELF AGAIN WITHING 30-60 SECONDS, SOMETIMES IMMEDIATELY. ONLY WAY TO KEEP WINDOW UP IS BY CONSTANTLY HOL…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V263000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 19V076000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 22V382000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V442000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V572000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 26V372000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 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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