2024 Ford Ranger
This year drew an ordinary 68 complaints for a Ford Ranger — the model's median is 168. What they were about is the unusual part: 61.8% of them mention trying, against 22.1% across the model's other years.
First year of a new generation. The Ford Ranger was redesigned for 2024. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
| Complaints filed | 68 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 168 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 13 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- trying — 61.8% of this year's complaints, against 22.1% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: trying, hard, accelerate, position.
- codes — 41.2% of this year's complaints, against 10.6% across the model's other years (3.9×). Owners wrote it as: codes, acceleration, soon, xxx information.
- owners — 39.7% of this year's complaints, against 11.9% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: owners, ranger raptor, safety issue, online.
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
On multiple occasions while making a left or right turn and trying to accelerate, there is no input via the gas pedal. The truck will not accelerate at all. It takes a random amount of time before any throttle input is registered, which is usually followed by…
When stopped or turning from a stop I will lose acceleration for 3-4 seconds at such time I will almost over accelerate when it does catch which I almost will lose control especially in icy weather. I have no codes have taken to dealership for repairs 4 times…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V597000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 24V770000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 24V848000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V164000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V237000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 25V310000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V315000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V541000 AIR BAGS 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 Ranger 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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