Recall Register

Flxible Metro: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 20 recall campaigns for the Flxible Metro, model years 1983 to 1998. NHTSA has 5 complaints on file for this model line. 9 of the 15 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19834
  2. 19847
  3. 19858
  4. 19868
  5. 19876
  6. 19886
  7. 19897
  8. 19903
  9. 19912
  10. 19921
  11. 19931
  12. 19941
  13. 19960
  14. 19970
  15. 19980
Flxible Metro: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1998 Flxible Metro NHTSA page01300%
1997 Flxible Metro NHTSA page01300%
1996 Flxible Metro NHTSA page01300%
1994 Flxible Metro NHTSA page100%741
1993 Flxible Metro NHTSA page100%741
1992 Flxible Metro NHTSA page11300%741
1991 Flxible Metro200%1,228
1990 Flxible Metro300%2,649
1989 Flxible Metro71300%8,384
1988 Flxible Metro600%7,593
1987 Flxible Metro600%12,477
1986 Flxible Metro800%13,939
1985 Flxible Metro800%14,064
1984 Flxible Metro700%12,060
1983 Flxible Metro400%10,395

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

10 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Flxible Metro: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Latches/Locks/Linkages1001
Power Train1001
Visibility1001
Exterior Lighting1001
Structure1001
Suspension1001
Service Brakes, Hydraulic1001
Seat Belts1001
Air Bags1001
Equipment1001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Flxible Metro, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Flxible Metro, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Flxible: all 9 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Flxible Metro: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/flxible/metro/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
FLXIBLE CORPORATION

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Flxible Metro model years have the most recall campaigns?
1986 with 8, 1985 with 8, 1989 with 7. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Flxible Metro model year has the most complaints?
The 1989 model year, with 1 of the 5 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Flxible Metro name?
Latches/Locks/Linkages: 1 component mention. Power Train: 1 component mention. Visibility: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Flxible Metro?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.