Recall Register

Ford F100: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 39 recall campaigns for the Ford F100, model years 1967 to 1996. NHTSA has 14 complaints on file for this model line. 8 of the 21 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. 19671
  2. 19691
  3. 19701
  4. 19711
  5. 19723
  6. 19734
  7. 19742
  8. 19761
  9. 19774
  10. 19787
  11. 19798
  12. 19803
  13. 19813
  14. 19831
  15. 19841
  16. 19850
  17. 19861
  18. 19871
  19. 19880
  20. 19900
  21. 19960
Ford F100: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1996 Ford F100 NHTSA page02300%
1990 Ford F100 NHTSA page02300%
1988 Ford F100 NHTSA page01150%
1987 Ford F100 NHTSA page100%3,600,000
1986 Ford F100 NHTSA page100%3,600,000
1985 Ford F100 NHTSA page01150%
1984 Ford F100 NHTSA page11150%85,000
1983 Ford F100 NHTSA page11150%98,162
1981 Ford F100300%18,890
1980 Ford F10031150%116,900
1979 Ford F10082300%173,720
1978 Ford F100700%127,130
1977 Ford F100400%112,511
1976 Ford F100 NHTSA page100%101
1974 Ford F10022300%38,791
1973 Ford F100400%1,052,670
1972 Ford F100300%1,064,209
1971 Ford F100 NHTSA page100%6,000
1970 Ford F100 NHTSA page100%6,000
1969 Ford F100 NHTSA page11150%80,700
1967 Ford F100 NHTSA page100%3,500

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

19 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 F100: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Tires263.25
Electrical System263.25
Engine and Engine Cooling157.93
Structure105.32
Fuel System, Gasoline52.61
Suspension52.61
Steering52.61
Visibility52.61

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford F100, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Ford F100, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2000, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 196 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford F100: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/f100/. 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 F100 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1979 with 8, 1978 with 7, 1977 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford F100 model year has the most complaints?
The 1974 model year, with 2 of the 14 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford F100 name?
Tires: 5 component mentions. Electrical System: 5 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 3 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford F100?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.