Recall Register

Ford Festiva: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Ford Festiva, model years 1984 to 1994. NHTSA has 165 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 8 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. 19840
  2. 19881
  3. 19891
  4. 19902
  5. 19911
  6. 19920
  7. 19930
  8. 19940
Ford Festiva: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1994 Ford Festiva NHTSA page015%
1993 Ford Festiva NHTSA page02097%
1992 Ford Festiva NHTSA page01363%
1991 Ford Festiva NHTSA page11887%265,000
1990 Ford Festiva221102%265,268
1989 Ford Festiva147228%265,000
1988 Ford Festiva144213%265,000
1984 Ford Festiva 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

194 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 Festiva: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Seat Belts515.5100
Electrical System118.623
Engine and Engine Cooling51.510
Suspension51.510
Power Train41.28
Seats36.17
Wheels30.96
Service Brakes, Hydraulic25.85
Tires25.85
Fuel System, Gasoline20.64

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford Festiva, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Ford Festiva, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 74 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 196 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford Festiva: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/festiva/. 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 Festiva model years have the most recall campaigns?
1990 with 2, 1991 with 1, 1989 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford Festiva model year has the most complaints?
The 1989 model year, with 47 of the 165 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford Festiva name?
Seat Belts: 515.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 118.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 51.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford Festiva?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.