Recall Register

Ford E150: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 18 recall campaigns for the Ford E150, model years 1976 to 2013. NHTSA has 99 complaints on file for this model line. 7 of the 27 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. 19761
  2. 19784
  3. 19795
  4. 19803
  5. 19811
  6. 19822
  7. 19831
  8. 19842
  9. 19850
  10. 19860
  11. 19870
  12. 19880
  13. 19892
  14. 19903
  15. 19971
  16. 19981
  17. 19991
  18. 20001
  19. 20041
  20. 20061
  21. 20071
  22. 20081
  23. 20091
  24. 20101
  25. 20111
  26. 20121
  27. 20131
Ford E150: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2013 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%834
2012 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%834
2011 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%834
2010 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%834
2009 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%834
2008 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%834
2007 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%834
2006 Ford E150 NHTSA page1127%834
2004 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%1,660
2000 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%1,660
1999 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%1,660
1998 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%1,660
1997 Ford E150 NHTSA page100%1,660
1990 Ford E150315409%461,030
1989 Ford E150230818%461,000
1988 Ford E150 NHTSA page014382%
1987 Ford E150 NHTSA page017464%
1986 Ford E150 NHTSA page09245%
1985 Ford E150 NHTSA page0382%
1984 Ford E1502382%98,637
1983 Ford E150 NHTSA page1127%13,637
1982 Ford E1502382%14,015
1981 Ford E150 NHTSA page1127%13,637
1980 Ford E150300%23,641
1979 Ford E150500%131,011
1978 Ford E150400%109,976
1976 Ford E150 NHTSA page1255%53,137

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

113 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 E150: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System318.636
Fuel System, Gasoline17720
Tires123.914
Engine and Engine Cooling88.510
Steering53.16
Vehicle Speed Control44.25
Service Brakes, Hydraulic44.25
Seat Belts26.53
Power Train26.53
Equipment17.72

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford E150, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Ford E150, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 29 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 201 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford E150: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/e150/. 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
15 May 2019
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 E150 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1979 with 5, 1978 with 4, 1990 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford E150 model year has the most complaints?
The 1989 model year, with 30 of the 99 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford E150 name?
Electrical System: 318.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 177 per 1,000 component mentions. Tires: 123.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford E150?
8 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.