2014 Ford Taurus
This year drew an ordinary 234 complaints for a Ford Taurus — the model's median is 175. What they were about is the unusual part: 17.9% of them mention start, against 5.3% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 234 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 175 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- start — 17.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the model's other years (3.4×).
- model — 15% of this year's complaints, against 5.4% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: model, make model, include, model year.
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
2014 FORD TAURUS RECALL: MY CAR WOULDN'T START AFTER BEING PARKED, I REPLACED THE BATTERY, AND IT STILL WOULD NOT START. NO CHECK ENGINE LIGHTS OR WARNINGS CAME ON. I WAS CHECKING ONLINE AND FOUND THAT THERE IS A RECALL OUT FOR MY MAKE MODEL & YEAR OF CAR FOR…
WHILE DRIVING I WENT TO TAKE A LEFT HAND TURN AND MY STEERING WENT OUT AND INTO A MANUAL MODE. I WAS ABLE TO AVOID AN ACCIDENT, BUT IT HAS HAPPENED THREE TIMES IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS. I HAVE RESEARCHED THIS ISSUE AND THERE WAS A RECALL FOR MODEL YEARS 2010-2…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V621000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 14V285000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 14V393000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 20V072000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 20V692000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Taurus 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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