Recall Register

Ford Club Wagon: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 24 recall campaigns for the Ford Club Wagon, model years 1975 to 2001. NHTSA has 166 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 25 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. 19751
  2. 19761
  3. 19784
  4. 19797
  5. 19803
  6. 19821
  7. 19833
  8. 19843
  9. 19852
  10. 19862
  11. 19871
  12. 19880
  13. 19890
  14. 19900
  15. 19910
  16. 19920
  17. 19930
  18. 19941
  19. 19951
  20. 19962
  21. 19970
  22. 19980
  23. 19990
  24. 20000
  25. 20010
Ford Club Wagon: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2001 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page0230%
2000 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page0575%
1999 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page0460%
1998 Ford Club Wagon028422%
1997 Ford Club Wagon028422%
1996 Ford Club Wagon217256%1,253,400
1995 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page115226%1,200,000
1994 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page117256%1,200,000
1993 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page012181%
1992 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page015226%
1991 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page0575%
1990 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page0575%
1989 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page08120%
1988 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page0115%
1987 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page1115%188,000
1986 Ford Club Wagon2230%258,125
1985 Ford Club Wagon2115%258,125
1984 Ford Club Wagon300%274,050
1983 Ford Club Wagon300%286,812
1982 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page100%378
1980 Ford Club Wagon300%102,500
1979 Ford Club Wagon700%159,374
1978 Ford Club Wagon400%68,287
1976 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page100%252,000
1975 Ford Club Wagon NHTSA page100%252,000

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

220 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.

Ford Club Wagon: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic245.554
Engine and Engine Cooling118.226
Tires81.818
Electrical System77.317
Fuel System, Gasoline54.512
Steering54.512
Vehicle Speed Control54.512
Power Train45.510
Visibility45.510
Suspension27.36

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford Club Wagon, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1996, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Ford Club Wagon, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 31 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 202 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford Club Wagon: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/club-wagon/. 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
Manufacturer in the recall file
FORD MOTOR COMPANY

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 Ford Club Wagon model years have the most recall campaigns?
1979 with 7, 1978 with 4, 1984 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford Club Wagon model year has the most complaints?
The 1997 model year, with 28 of the 166 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford Club Wagon name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 245.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 118.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Tires: 81.8 per 1,000 component mentions.