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Model years to avoid

Ford Transit

What it says about you

Opinion

A van bought for a business, and the business is why. It is taller inside than you expected.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

13 model years on record, 2,435 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2020 (light comes). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • seat 2019, 2020 peak 32.5% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 nothing on record 30 complaints
  2. 2025 4 recalls 12 complaints
  3. 2024 10 recalls 162 complaints
  4. 2023 19 recalls 318 complaints
  5. 2022 16 recalls 216 complaints
  6. 2021 4 recalls 138 complaints
  7. 2020 light comes 581 complaints
  8. 2019 9 recalls 180 complaints
  9. 2018 14 recalls 337 complaints
  10. 2017 18 recalls 108 complaints
  11. 2016 21 recalls 159 complaints
  12. 2015 26 recalls 191 complaints
  13. 2014 3 recalls 3 complaints

What does a Ford Transit say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.