Recall Register

2006 Ford Five Hundred: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2006 Ford Five Hundred. NHTSA has 104 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 2006 Ford Five Hundred. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 104 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

104 complaints, 142 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.

  • 2006 Ford Five Hundred
  • All 2006 vehicles
2006 Ford Five Hundred: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2006 Five HundredAll 2006 vehiclesFive Hundred, all yearsMentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic232.468.6162.233
Vehicle Speed Control197.254126.828
Power Train112.793.2178.816
Structure63.438.962.49
Electrical System56.386.4101.98
Engine and Engine Cooling56.393.570.78
Visibility42.360.720.86
Fuel System, Gasoline28.266.239.54
Exterior Lighting28.253.218.74
Wheels28.2810.44

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 23.

Complaints that report a crash
7
Complaints that report a fire
3
Injuries in the complaints
4
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
21 Oct 2010

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 2006 Ford Five Hundred, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 39 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2006 Ford Five Hundred
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
PE11018Preliminary evaluationIdle instabilityVehicle Speed Control11 May 20117 Feb 2013

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. 20040
  2. 20052
  3. 20060
  4. 20071

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. 2006 Ford Five Hundred: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/five-hundred/2006/. 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
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 Five Hundred have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the Ford Five Hundred, model years 2004 to 2007. None of them names the 2006 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2006 Ford Five Hundred name most often?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 33 of 142 component mentions, or 232.4 per 1,000. For all 2006 vehicles the figure is 68.6 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2006 Ford Five Hundred open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.