Recall Register

1996 Ford Aspire: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1996 Ford Aspire. NHTSA has 33 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1996 Ford Aspire. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 33 complaints for it.

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

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

Complaints by component

33 complaints, 41 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1996 Ford Aspire: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic9
Air Bags6
Electrical System6
Power Train4
Visibility3
Suspension3
Fuel System, Gasoline3
Seat Belts2
Steering2
Tires1

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 12.

Complaints that report a crash
3
Complaints that report a fire
1
Injuries in the complaints
3
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
14 Feb 2006

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1996 Ford Aspire, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1998, with 11 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1996 Ford Aspire
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
PE98040Preliminary evaluationFUEL VAPOR VALVE LEAKSVehicle Speed Control / Linkages15 Jul 199816 Nov 1998

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

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

  1. 19870
  2. 19942
  3. 19950
  4. 19960
  5. 19970

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1996 Ford Aspire: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/aspire/1996/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
FORD MOTOR COMPANY

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Ford Aspire have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Ford Aspire, model years 1987 to 1997. None of them names the 1996 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1996 Ford Aspire name most often?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 9 of 41 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1996 Ford Aspire open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.