Recall Register

Ford Transit: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 65 recall campaigns for the Ford Transit, model years 2001 to 2027. NHTSA has 144 complaints on file for this model line. 12 of the 15 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. 20010
  2. 20143
  3. 201526
  4. 201621
  5. 201718
  6. 201814
  7. 20199
  8. 20209
  9. 20214
  10. 202216
  11. 202318
  12. 202410
  13. 20254
  14. 20261
  15. 20271
Ford Transit: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2027 Ford Transit NHTSA page100%1,945
2026 Ford Transit NHTSA page100%1,945
2025 Ford Transit400%1,092,345
2024 Ford Transit1000%1,198,313
2023 Ford Transit1800%1,621,493
2022 Ford Transit1600%1,572,493
2021 Ford Transit400%242,826
2020 Ford Transit900%825,435
2019 Ford Transit900%1,460,211
2018 Ford Transit14883%1,461,463
2017 Ford Transit1823240%2,218,987
2016 Ford Transit2143448%2,307,056
2015 Ford Transit2666688%853,743
2014 Ford Transit3331%2,628
2001 Ford Transit NHTSA page0110%

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

205 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 Transit: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train180.537
Unknown or Other92.719
Engine87.818
Structure7816
Fuel/Propulsion System7816
Service Brakes73.215
Electrical System68.314
Seat Belts53.711
Suspension34.17
Air Bags34.17

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford Transit, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 14 campaigns.
Complaints about the Ford Transit, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 52 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 201 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford Transit: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/transit/. 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
New England Wheels

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 Transit model years have the most recall campaigns?
2015 with 26, 2016 with 21, 2023 with 18. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford Transit model year has the most complaints?
The 2015 model year, with 66 of the 144 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford Transit name?
Power Train: 180.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 92.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 87.8 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford Transit?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.