Recall Register

Ford E250: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 30 recall campaigns for the Ford E250, model years 1975 to 2013. NHTSA has 19 complaints on file for this model line. 11 of the 30 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. 19754
  2. 19761
  3. 19771
  4. 19785
  5. 19794
  6. 19801
  7. 19822
  8. 19835
  9. 19845
  10. 19854
  11. 19863
  12. 19872
  13. 19880
  14. 19892
  15. 19902
  16. 19971
  17. 19981
  18. 19991
  19. 20001
  20. 20021
  21. 20031
  22. 20051
  23. 20061
  24. 20071
  25. 20081
  26. 20091
  27. 20101
  28. 20111
  29. 20121
  30. 20131
Ford E250: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2013 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%834
2012 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%834
2011 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%834
2010 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%834
2009 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%834
2008 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%834
2007 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%834
2006 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%834
2005 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%133
2003 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%501
2002 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%501
2000 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%1,660
1999 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%1,660
1998 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%1,660
1997 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%1,660
1990 Ford E25023474%461,000
1989 Ford E250271105%461,000
1988 Ford E250 NHTSA page02316%
1987 Ford E250200%202,975
1986 Ford E250300%231,766
1985 Ford E25042316%240,266
1984 Ford E25052316%297,525
1983 Ford E250500%287,110
1982 Ford E250200%75,363
1980 Ford E250 NHTSA page11158%4
1979 Ford E25041158%169,874
1978 Ford E25051158%114,224
1977 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%16,000
1976 Ford E250 NHTSA page100%53,137
1975 Ford E250400%326,545

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

21 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 E250: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System285.76
Fuel System, Gasoline238.15
Engine and Engine Cooling190.54
Structure47.61
Suspension47.61
Tires47.61
Service Brakes, Hydraulic47.61
Seats47.61
Vehicle Speed Control47.61

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford E250, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2004, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Ford E250, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 7 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 196 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford E250: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/e250/. 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
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 E250 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1984 with 5, 1983 with 5, 1978 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford E250 model year has the most complaints?
The 1989 model year, with 7 of the 19 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford E250 name?
Electrical System: 6 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 5 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 4 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford E250?
11 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.