2016 Ford Taurus
This year drew an ordinary 79 complaints for a Ford Taurus — the model's median is 187. What they were about is the unusual part: 35.4% of them mention camera, against 1.5% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 79 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 187 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- camera — 35.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the model's other years (24.1×).
- over — 36.7% of this year's complaints, against 13.8% across the model's other years (2.7×).
- manufacturer made — 25.3% of this year's complaints, against 8.6% across the model's other years (3×).
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
I was backing up in a parking lot when the backup camera suddenly inverted and I nearly ran over a small child. It now only works about 40% of the time and usually the image is inverted or scrambled. This is dangerous. I think Ford should fix it since apparent…
a recall notification NHTSA Campaign Number: 25V6950000 (Back Over Prevention); however; the recall remedy parts were not available. The contact stated while reversing, the rearview camera displayed a blurry image, causing the contact to slightly hit a pole. T…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V925000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 20V072000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V611000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V695000 BACK OVER PREVENTION 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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