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Ford Fiesta

Every Ford Fiesta model year on file, 2015 to 2019. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years65056 involved a crash, fire, injury or death
Model years52015 to 2019
Recall campaigns7Distinct campaigns listing it
Service bulletins391Summed across model years
By model year

The 2015 model year drew the most complaints, 258, 40% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

010020030020152582016201720182019
Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.
Components

Powertrain leads the Ford Fiesta complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Powertrain
258
Engine and cooling
148
Fuel system
80
Electrical system
69
Speed control
33
Airbags
33
Back-over prevention
32
Brakes
29
Structure
24
Steering
19
Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.
Model years

The record for each Ford Fiesta model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

Ford Fiesta by model year
YearBodyComplaintsSeverity indexPeer indexRecallsInvestigationsBulletins
2019Sedan10514.37783041
2018Sedan3511.42920055
2017Sedan7410.84350292
2016Sedan1787.31,27102110
2015Sedan2586.21,6134393
Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.
Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Ford Fiesta

  • 25V-695 Oct 13, 2025
    Rearview camera may display a distorted, intermittent, or blank image when the vehicle is in reverse
    Back-over prevention · 1.45M vehicles
  • 24V-951 Dec 20, 2024
    Rearview camera may intermittently display a blank or distorted image
    Back-over prevention · 31k vehicles
  • 23V-775 Nov 17, 2023
    Component inside the door latches may break, which can make it difficult to latch or possibly allow the doors to open while driving
    Latches and locks · 45k vehicles
  • 20V-177 Mar 23, 2020
    Component within the door latches may break making the doors difficult to latch and/or leading the driver or a passenger to believe a door is…
    Latches and locks · 288k vehicles
  • 19V-629 Aug 28, 2019
    Brake calipers may have been manufactured with the incorrect assembly fluid, which can cause the caliper's rubber seals to swell
    Brakes · 2,624 vehicles
  • 17V-209 Mar 27, 2017
    If the vehicle is started and driven with an insufficient level of coolant within the engine cooling system, the engine cylinder head may…
    Engine and cooling · 209k vehicles
  • 15V-005 Jan 9, 2015
    On April 30, 2015, Ford expanded the recall to cover an additional 45,505 vehicles, including certain model year 2014-2015 Ford Transit Connect…
    Fuel system · 55k vehicles
Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.