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Ford F-Series 2023

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

0.73 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 512 complaints filed in the first three years, of 707 ever. 95% lower bound 0.67.

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.

Power Train 220 complaints

reasonable	43	20%
amount recall	38	17%
reasonable amount	38	17%
exceeded reasonable	38	17%
part recall	34	15%
however part	32	15%

Electrical System 208 complaints

truck	69	31%
screen	46	21%
cluster	36	16%
instrument cluster	27	12%
black	20	9%
trailer	16	7%

Unknown Or Other 106 complaints

truck

42%

When it breaks

62% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 18,000 miles, from 121 complaints that recorded one).

Failures cluster early, which is the signature of how the car was built rather than of wear. A low-mileage example has not yet passed the risk window.

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:

11507655 · 11514609 · 11517962 · 11520340 · 11520897 · 11522400

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.