2018 Ford Transit
This year drew an ordinary 337 complaints for a Ford Transit — the model's median is 162. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.4% of them mention common, against 1% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 337 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 162 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 14 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- common — 7.4% of this year's complaints, against 1% across the model's other years (7.1×).
- appears — 7.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.2% across the model's other years (6.2×). Owners wrote it as: appears, openings.
- carbon — 10.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.7% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: carbon, exhaust, windows.
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
SEVERAL SPOTS ARE OCCURRING AT JOINTS OF DOOR OPENINGS AND ALSO ON THE ROOF WHERE THE PAINT IS NOT ADHERING PROPERLY OR IS ACTUALLY BEING RUBBED OFF WHEN THE DOORS ARE CLOSED AND THE VEHICLE IS AN OPERATION. THE PAINT JOB ON THE CEILING WELDS IS NOT SMOOTH. IT…
FUEL DOOR BROKEN AT UPPER HINGE. VERY COMMON PART FAILURE FORD WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V103000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 19V439000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 19V333000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V205000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V782000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V332000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V252000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V329000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 14. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Transit 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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