Recall Register

Ford Mustang Convertible: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Ford Mustang Convertible, model years 1994 to 2003. NHTSA has 139 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 9 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. 19940
  2. 19950
  3. 19960
  4. 19970
  5. 19980
  6. 19990
  7. 20000
  8. 20010
  9. 20030
Ford Mustang Convertible: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2003 Ford Mustang Convertible035227%
2001 Ford Mustang Convertible NHTSA page017110%
2000 Ford Mustang Convertible NHTSA page020129%
1999 Ford Mustang Convertible NHTSA page0958%
1998 Ford Mustang Convertible NHTSA page01171%
1997 Ford Mustang Convertible NHTSA page0958%
1996 Ford Mustang Convertible NHTSA page0852%
1995 Ford Mustang Convertible NHTSA page01491%
1994 Ford Mustang Convertible NHTSA page016104%

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

170 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 Mustang Convertible: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling235.340
Structure82.414
Electrical System64.711
Air Bags64.711
Seat Belts64.711
Suspension58.810
Power Train52.99
Fuel System, Gasoline47.18
Tires41.27
Exterior Lighting41.27

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford Mustang Convertible, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Ford Mustang Convertible, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 31 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 202 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford Mustang Convertible: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/mustang-convertible/. 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

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 Mustang Convertible model years have the most recall campaigns?
No model year of this line has a recall campaign in the NHTSA file.
Which Ford Mustang Convertible model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 35 of the 139 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford Mustang Convertible name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 235.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 82.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 64.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford Mustang Convertible?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.