Recall Register

1989 Ford Probe: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1989 Ford Probe. NHTSA has 71 complaints on file for this model year. 4 NHTSA investigations name 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 1989 Ford Probe. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 71 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

71 complaints, 93 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.

  • 1989 Ford Probe
  • All 1989 vehicles
1989 Ford Probe: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component1989 ProbeAll 1989 vehiclesProbe, all yearsMentions
Seat Belts258.1122.3373.624
Engine and Engine Cooling182.8128.997.517
Visibility107.531.333.410
Electrical System96.8140.285.99
Power Train8674.180.48
Service Brakes, Hydraulic64.5116.782.56
Fuel System, Gasoline4365.618.44
Tires32.327.812.33
Equipment21.516.47.52
Structure21.554.125.22

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 17.

Complaints that report a crash
4
Complaints that report a fire
5
Injuries in the complaints
2
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
20 Apr 2004

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 1989 Ford Probe, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 18 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1989 Ford Probe
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
DP07001Defect petitionSEATBACK RECLINE MECHANISM FAILURESeats / Front Assembly / Recliner30 Jul 20075 Dec 2007
PE96027Preliminary evaluationMAZDA RX7 AUTOMATIC SEAT BELT FAILURESeat Belts16 Apr 199630 Sep 199696V173000
PE91124Preliminary evaluationENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRESEngine and Engine Cooling9 Sep 199123 Dec 1991
PE89166Preliminary evaluationTRANSMISSION OIL LINE FIREPower Train15 Sep 198922 Dec 1989

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. 19840
  2. 19890
  3. 19903
  4. 19913
  5. 19922
  6. 19931
  7. 19941
  8. 19950
  9. 19961
  10. 19971
  11. 19990

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. 1989 Ford Probe: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/probe/1989/. 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 Probe have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the Ford Probe, model years 1984 to 1999. None of them names the 1989 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1989 Ford Probe name most often?
Seat Belts: 24 of 93 component mentions, or 258.1 per 1,000. For all 1989 vehicles the figure is 122.3 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1989 Ford Probe open?
No. Each of the 4 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.