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Ford F-Series 2009

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.23 per 1,000

better than this nameplate’s own median · from 107 complaints filed in the first three years, of 448 ever. 95% lower bound 0.19.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.52	269
2009	0.23	107
2010	0.45	210
2011	0.80	445
2012	0.81	500
2013	0.53	373
2014	0.32	244
2015	0.57	438
2016	0.70	557
2017	1.29	1106
2018	0.96	869
2019	1.25	1126
2020	0.36	304
2021	0.77	585
2022	0.89	612
2023	0.73	512

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Steering 85 complaints

death wobble

35%

Suspension 60 complaints

wobble	32	52%
death	30	49%
death wobble	29	48%
violently	22	36%
track bar	11	19%
track	11	19%

Vehicle Speed Control 56 complaints

truck	29	52%
neutral	22	39%
foot off	11	20%

When it breaks

32% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 54,245 miles, from 394 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

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Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.