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2012 Ford F-250 SD: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2012 Ford F-250 SD. NHTSA has 57 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 2012 Ford F-250 SD. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 57 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

57 complaints, 97 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.

  • 2012 Ford F-250 SD
  • All 2012 vehicles
2012 Ford F-250 SD: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2012 F-250 SDAll 2012 vehiclesF-250 SD, all yearsMentions
Steering185.697.9261.318
Engine154.6144.233.715
Suspension144.321.5234.914
Engine and Engine Cooling1349.776.613
Electrical System103.1130.153.810
Fuel/Propulsion System41.244.123.54
Service Brakes41.256.213.14
Power Train30.9108.948.83
Wheels30.911.829.83
Unknown or Other30.969.3473

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 18.

Complaints that report a crash
1
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
0
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
27 Feb 2023

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 2012 Ford F-250 SD, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2014, with 18 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2012 Ford F-250 SD
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
RQ14005Recall queryVehicle Commanded Engine ShutdownElectrical System / Software13 Jan 201515 Mar 201615V175000

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. 19910
  2. 19920
  3. 19931
  4. 19941
  5. 19951
  6. 19961
  7. 19972
  8. 19981
  9. 19992
  10. 20002
  11. 20012
  12. 20023
  13. 20034
  14. 20042
  15. 20053
  16. 20061
  17. 20071
  18. 20080
  19. 20090
  20. 20100
  21. 20110
  22. 20120
  23. 20130
  24. 20140
  25. 20152
  26. 20163
  27. 201714
  28. 20189
  29. 201911
  30. 202014
  31. 202112
  32. 202217
  33. 202316
  34. 20244
  35. 20257
  36. 20266

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. 2012 Ford F-250 SD: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/f-250-sd/2012/. 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 F-250 SD have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 68 recall campaigns for the Ford F-250 SD, model years 1991 to 2026. None of them names the 2012 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2012 Ford F-250 SD name most often?
Steering: 18 of 97 component mentions, or 185.6 per 1,000. For all 2012 vehicles the figure is 97.9 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2012 Ford F-250 SD open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.