Recall Register

Ford LTD: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 35 recall campaigns for the Ford LTD, model years 1968 to 2000. NHTSA has 77 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 25 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. 19681
  2. 19700
  3. 19722
  4. 19735
  5. 19745
  6. 19753
  7. 19771
  8. 19783
  9. 19798
  10. 19801
  11. 19814
  12. 19822
  13. 19831
  14. 19842
  15. 19852
  16. 19860
  17. 19870
  18. 19880
  19. 19890
  20. 19900
  21. 19910
  22. 19920
  23. 19930
  24. 19950
  25. 20000
Ford LTD: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2000 Ford LTD NHTSA page0265%
1995 Ford LTD NHTSA page0265%
1993 Ford LTD NHTSA page0132%
1992 Ford LTD NHTSA page0265%
1991 Ford LTD NHTSA page0397%
1990 Ford LTD NHTSA page0265%
1989 Ford LTD NHTSA page08260%
1988 Ford LTD NHTSA page06195%
1987 Ford LTD NHTSA page0132%
1986 Ford LTD NHTSA page09292%
1985 Ford LTD217552%22,679
1984 Ford LTD214455%538,671
1983 Ford LTD NHTSA page15162%98,162
1982 Ford LTD200%9,328
1981 Ford LTD400%37,115
1980 Ford LTD NHTSA page100%9
1979 Ford LTD8265%340,771
1978 Ford LTD300%28,060
1977 Ford LTD NHTSA page100%9,000
1975 Ford LTD300%283,767
1974 Ford LTD5265%553,117
1973 Ford LTD500%489,037
1972 Ford LTD200%30,730
1970 Ford LTD NHTSA page0132%
1968 Ford LTD NHTSA page100%3,400

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

88 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 LTD: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System386.434
Engine and Engine Cooling181.816
Power Train90.98
Vehicle Speed Control79.57
Seat Belts68.26
Tires34.13
Structure34.13
Seats34.13
Steering22.72
Visibility11.41

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford LTD, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Ford LTD, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 24 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 201 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford LTD: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/ltd/. 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
15 May 2019
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 LTD model years have the most recall campaigns?
1979 with 8, 1974 with 5, 1973 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford LTD model year has the most complaints?
The 1985 model year, with 17 of the 77 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford LTD name?
Electrical System: 386.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 181.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 90.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford LTD?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.