Recall Register

1986 Ford Tempo: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1986 Ford Tempo. NHTSA has 30 complaints on file for this model year. 10 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 1986 Ford Tempo. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 30 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

30 complaints, 41 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1986 Ford Tempo: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Electrical System17
Service Brakes, Hydraulic4
Power Train3
Vehicle Speed Control2
Steering2
Fuel System, Gasoline2
Engine and Engine Cooling2
Parking Brake2
Seat Belts1
Air Bags1

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 15.

Complaints that report a crash
2
Complaints that report a fire
11
Injuries in the complaints
0
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
14 Dec 2005

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 1986 Ford Tempo, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 15 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1986 Ford Tempo
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
PE96005Preliminary evaluationREAR BRK ADJUSTER FAILUREService Brakes, Hydraulic19 Jan 199628 May 1996
DP96002Defect petitionREAR BRAKE SYSTEM FAILUREService Brakes, Hydraulic11 Jan 199619 Jan 1996
EA91052Engineering analysisSEAT BELT SEPARATIONSeat Belts27 Nov 199124 Nov 1992
PE91098Preliminary evaluationSAFETY BELT CUT AT WEBBINGSeat Belts / Front / Webbing12 Jul 199127 Nov 1991
PE91025Preliminary evaluationFUEL PUMP FAILUREVehicle Speed Control / Linkages17 Dec 199010 Apr 1991
EA89037Engineering analysisSPEED CNTRL MALFUNCTIONEquipment6 Sep 198930 Nov 1990
PE89118Preliminary evaluationSPEED CONTROL MALFUNCTIONEquipment19 Apr 19896 Sep 1989
PE88034Preliminary evaluationHALFSHAFT FAILUREPower Train18 Mar 198819 Sep 1988
PE87028Preliminary evaluationSTALLINGElectrical System1 May 198721 Jan 1988
EA86010Engineering analysisSEATBACK FAILURESeats26 Mar 198628 Jul 198986V082000

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. 19810
  2. 19846
  3. 19853
  4. 19860
  5. 19871
  6. 19882
  7. 19891
  8. 19901
  9. 19911
  10. 19922
  11. 19932
  12. 19941
  13. 19950
  14. 19960
  15. 19970
  16. 19980
  17. 19990
  18. 20000

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. 1986 Ford Tempo: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/tempo/1986/. 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
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 Tempo have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Ford Tempo, model years 1981 to 2000. None of them names the 1986 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1986 Ford Tempo name most often?
Electrical System: 17 of 41 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1986 Ford Tempo open?
No. Each of the 10 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.