Recall Register

Ford F Series (light): recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Ford F Series (light), model years 1973 to 2002. NHTSA has 120 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 20 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. 19730
  2. 19780
  3. 19803
  4. 19860
  5. 19871
  6. 19880
  7. 19890
  8. 19900
  9. 19910
  10. 19920
  11. 19930
  12. 19940
  13. 19950
  14. 19960
  15. 19970
  16. 19980
  17. 19990
  18. 20000
  19. 20010
  20. 20020
Ford F Series (light): recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2002 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page013217%
2001 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page010167%
2000 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page0350%
1999 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page06100%
1998 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page0117%
1997 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page015250%
1996 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page0233%
1995 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page0117%
1994 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page016267%
1993 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page012200%
1992 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page09150%
1991 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page09150%
1990 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page08133%
1989 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page06100%
1988 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page06100%
1987 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page100%2,060
1986 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page0117%
1980 Ford F Series (light)300%33,832
1978 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page0117%
1973 Ford F Series (light) NHTSA page0117%

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

163 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 F Series (light): complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic208.634
Engine and Engine Cooling165.627
Electrical System85.914
Fuel System, Gasoline85.914
Power Train73.612
Structure49.18
Tires42.97
Engine36.86
Vehicle Speed Control30.75
Suspension30.75

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford F Series (light), by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Ford F Series (light), by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 54 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 202 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford F Series (light): recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/f-series-light/. 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 F Series (light) model years have the most recall campaigns?
1980 with 3, 1987 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford F Series (light) model year has the most complaints?
The 1994 model year, with 16 of the 120 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford F Series (light) name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 208.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 165.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 85.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford F Series (light)?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.