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2005 Ford Taurus: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2005 Ford Taurus. NHTSA has 132 complaints on file for this model year. 2 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 2005 Ford Taurus. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 132 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

132 complaints, 151 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.

  • 2005 Ford Taurus
  • All 2005 vehicles
2005 Ford Taurus: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2005 TaurusAll 2005 vehiclesTaurus, all yearsMentions
Power Train245115.8131.337
Vehicle Speed Control198.755.450.930
Air Bags119.249.840.518
Engine and Engine Cooling79.591.7172.512
Visibility72.839.454.211
Electrical System53115.972.98
Structure46.445.747.97
Equipment33.121.517.15
Suspension26.548.1157.54
Service Brakes, Hydraulic26.569.465.14

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 18.

Complaints that report a crash
15
Complaints that report a fire
5
Injuries in the complaints
17
Deaths in the complaints
1
Date of the newest complaint
27 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 2005 Ford Taurus, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 46 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2005 Ford Taurus
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
PE12005Preliminary evaluationStuck throttleVehicle Speed Control / Cables7 Mar 201222 Oct 2012
DP06005Defect petitionENGINE STALLING FFVFuel System, Gasoline / Delivery4 Dec 200628 Dec 2007

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.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2005 Ford Taurus: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/taurus/2005/. 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 Taurus have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 69 recall campaigns for the Ford Taurus, model years 1977 to 2019. None of them names the 2005 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2005 Ford Taurus name most often?
Power Train: 37 of 151 component mentions, or 245 per 1,000. For all 2005 vehicles the figure is 115.8 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2005 Ford Taurus open?
No. Each of the 2 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.