Recall Register

Ford E350: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 41 recall campaigns for the Ford E350, model years 1975 to 2013. NHTSA has 91 complaints on file for this model line. 14 of the 31 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. 19793
  6. 19801
  7. 19812
  8. 19823
  9. 19838
  10. 198412
  11. 198510
  12. 198611
  13. 19878
  14. 19881
  15. 19893
  16. 19902
  17. 19971
  18. 19981
  19. 19991
  20. 20002
  21. 20021
  22. 20031
  23. 20052
  24. 20061
  25. 20071
  26. 20081
  27. 20091
  28. 20101
  29. 20111
  30. 20121
  31. 20131
Ford E350: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2013 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%834
2012 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%834
2011 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%834
2010 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%834
2009 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%834
2008 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%834
2007 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%834
2006 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%834
2005 Ford E350200%357
2003 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%501
2002 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%501
2000 Ford E350200%1,793
1999 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%1,660
1998 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%1,660
1997 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%1,660
1990 Ford E350223784%461,000
1989 Ford E350325852%461,228
1988 Ford E350 NHTSA page110341%228
1987 Ford E350814477%220,256
1986 Ford E3501110341%295,807
1985 Ford E35010268%303,378
1984 Ford E350124136%323,086
1983 Ford E35083102%309,810
1982 Ford E350300%79,363
1981 Ford E350200%4,254
1980 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%4,000
1979 Ford E350300%157,874
1978 Ford E350500%114,224
1977 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%16,000
1976 Ford E350 NHTSA page100%53,137
1975 Ford E350400%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

119 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 E350: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic378.245
Electrical System126.115
Engine and Engine Cooling126.115
Structure100.812
Fuel System, Gasoline75.69
Tires58.87
Power Train425
Suspension25.23
Vehicle Speed Control16.82
Wheels8.41

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford E350, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2004, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Ford E350, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 38 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 196 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford E350: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/e350/. 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 E350 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1984 with 12, 1986 with 11, 1985 with 10. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford E350 model year has the most complaints?
The 1989 model year, with 25 of the 91 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford E350 name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 378.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 126.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 126.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford E350?
66 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.