Recall Register

Ford F Super Duty: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the Ford F Super Duty, model years 1981 to 2008. NHTSA has 415 complaints on file for this model line. 11 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. 19810
  2. 19870
  3. 19890
  4. 19900
  5. 19911
  6. 19921
  7. 19932
  8. 19942
  9. 19951
  10. 19962
  11. 19973
  12. 19980
  13. 19993
  14. 20003
  15. 20011
  16. 20020
  17. 20030
  18. 20040
  19. 20050
  20. 20080
Ford F Super Duty: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2008 Ford F Super Duty031149%
2005 Ford F Super Duty027130%
2004 Ford F Super Duty NHTSA page01467%
2003 Ford F Super Duty027130%
2002 Ford F Super Duty034164%
2001 Ford F Super Duty132154%185
2000 Ford F Super Duty363304%31,487
1999 Ford F Super Duty393448%33,224
1998 Ford F Super Duty NHTSA page01467%
1997 Ford F Super Duty324116%101,100
1996 Ford F Super Duty2839%64,200
1995 Ford F Super Duty NHTSA page11258%64,000
1994 Ford F Super Duty22096%434,000
1993 Ford F Super Duty2314%1,195,000
1992 Ford F Super Duty NHTSA page1839%1,131,000
1991 Ford F Super Duty NHTSA page115%1,131,000
1990 Ford F Super Duty NHTSA page015%
1989 Ford F Super Duty NHTSA page015%
1987 Ford F Super Duty NHTSA page015%
1981 Ford F Super Duty NHTSA page015%

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

552 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 Super Duty: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling121.467
Tires119.666
Service Brakes, Hydraulic112.362
Power Train88.849
Steering85.147
Engine70.739
Electrical System65.236
Suspension56.231
Vehicle Speed Control54.330
Fuel System, Gasoline39.922

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford F Super Duty, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1996, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Ford F Super Duty, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2001, with 78 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 202 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford F Super Duty: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/f-super-duty/. 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 Super Duty model years have the most recall campaigns?
2000 with 3, 1999 with 3, 1997 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford F Super Duty model year has the most complaints?
The 1999 model year, with 93 of the 415 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford F Super Duty name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 121.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Tires: 119.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 112.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford F Super Duty?
17 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.